🏠 Home > Operating System > 6. CPU Scheduling > Scheduling Criteria
← Back to 6. CPU Scheduling

📝 Scheduling Criteria

📖 From Operating System • 6. CPU Scheduling • 53 questions available

Practice MCQs for Scheduling Criteria. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-10

10
Easy Questions
18
Medium Questions
25
Hard Questions

📝 Sample Questions

Q1. What is CPU utilization in the context of scheduling criteria?

🔹 A. The percentage of time the CPU is idle
🔹 B. The percentage of time the CPU is executing processes
🔹 C. The number of processes completed per second
🔹 D. The time taken to respond to a user request

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. What components make up turnaround time?

🔹 A. Only CPU execution time
🔹 B. Waiting in ready queue and CPU execution
🔹 C. Waiting to get into memory, ready queue, CPU execution, and I/O
🔹 D. Only I/O time and execution time

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: C

Q3. A system designer wants to optimize CPU utilization. Which of the following would be most helpful?

🔹 A. Reducing the number of processes
🔹 B. Running longer processes
🔹 C. Keeping the ready queue non-empty
🔹 D. Increasing I/O operations

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

⬆️ View all questions in the quiz below

🔗 Related Topics

📝 Computer System Architecture📝 Computer System Organization📝 Computing Environments📝 Kernel Data Structures📝 Memory Management
🚀 Start Quiz 📝 Practice Mode