📝 Necessary Conditions for Deadlock Characterization

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-11

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Q1. How many conditions must hold simultaneously for a deadlock to occur in a system?

🔹 A. Three

🔹 B. Four

🔹 C. Five

🔹 D. Two

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. The mutual exclusion condition requires that at least one resource must be held in what mode?

🔹 A. Sharable mode

🔹 B. Non-sharable mode

🔹 C. Exclusive mode

🔹 D. Shared mode

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. Which of the following resource types would typically satisfy the mutual exclusion condition?

🔹 A. A read-only file that can be accessed by multiple processes

🔹 B. A printer that can only be used by one process at a time

🔹 C. A shared memory segment

🔹 D. A global variable accessed with atomic operations

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

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