📝 Mutual Exclusion Deadlock Prevention

📖 From Operating System • 7. Deadlocks • 44 questions available

Practice MCQs for Mutual Exclusion Deadlock Prevention. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-11

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Q1. What does the mutual exclusion condition require for a resource to potentially be involved in a deadlock?

🔹 A. The resource must be sharable

🔹 B. The resource must be nonsharable

🔹 C. The resource must be preemptable

🔹 D. The resource must be a logical resource

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. What is a key characteristic of a sharable resource in the context of deadlocks?

🔹 A. It requires mutual exclusion

🔹 B. It can only be used by one process at a time

🔹 C. It does not require mutually exclusive access

🔹 D. It is always a physical resource

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: C

Q3. Why can't deadlocks be prevented simply by denying the mutual-exclusion condition?

🔹 A. Because mutual exclusion is not a necessary condition

🔹 B. Because some resources are intrinsically nonsharable

🔹 C. Because all resources can be made sharable

🔹 D. Because mutual exclusion is the only condition that matters

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

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