📝 Resource Preemption and Recovery from Deadlock

📖 From Operating System • 7. Deadlocks • 23 questions available

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-11

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Q1. What is the fundamental approach of resource preemption for deadlock resolution?

🔹 A. Aborting all processes in the deadlock cycle

🔹 B. Successively preempting resources from processes

🔹 C. Preventing processes from requesting resources

🔹 D. Increasing resource availability

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. What condition must be met for resource preemption to successfully eliminate deadlock?

🔹 A. All processes must be preempted simultaneously

🔹 B. Resources must be preempted until the deadlock cycle breaks

🔹 C. Only CPU resources need to be preempted

🔹 D. Preemption must occur before deadlock detection

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. How do cost factors in victim selection relate to process termination decisions?

🔹 A. They use completely different criteria

🔹 B. They are both economic decisions

🔹 C. Victim selection ignores cost

🔹 D. Only termination considers cost

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

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