Practice Operations on Priority Queue - 36.2.1 | 36. Priority queues and heaps - Part A | Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is the primary difference between a standard queue and a priority queue?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about job processing order.

Question 2

Easy

Name one operation associated with priority queues.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens when you want to add or remove jobs.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What operation retrieves the highest priority job from the priority queue?

  • Insert
  • Delete Max
  • Add Job

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how jobs are prioritized.

Question 2

True or False: Priority queues always process the earliest arriving job.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how priorities are assigned.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Create a max heap from the following priorities: [30, 10, 50, 20, 40]. What steps did you take to maintain the max heap property?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Visualize how heaps rotate and adjust during each insertion.

Question 2

If a priority queue contains numbers in this order [15, 22, 32, 5, 12], simulate how it's modified by adding a new number 25. What will the heap look like after insertion?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Track where each number fits and visualize each swap.

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