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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-10

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Q1. What is the fundamental principle of priority scheduling?

🔹 A. The process with the longest CPU burst runs first
🔹 B. The CPU is allocated to the process with the highest priority
🔹 C. Processes run in round-robin order
🔹 D. The shortest process runs first

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. For the priority scheduling example with P1(10,priority3), P2(1,p1), P3(2,p4), P4(1,p5), P5(5,p2), what is the average waiting time?

🔹 A. 8.2ms
🔹 B. 10ms
🔹 C. 6ms
🔹 D. 9ms

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: A

Q3. What happens when a low-priority process waits indefinitely in priority scheduling?

🔹 A. It eventually gets CPU time
🔹 B. It experiences starvation
🔹 C. It is automatically terminated
🔹 D. Its priority is increased

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

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