Practice Elevated System Complexity (6.6.1) - Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
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Elevated System Complexity

Practice - Elevated System Complexity

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the primary purpose of an RTOS?

💡 Hint: Think about how systems prioritize tasks.

Question 2 Easy

Define context switching.

💡 Hint: Consider what needs to happen to pause a task.

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Question 1

What is the main function of an RTOS?

Maximizing throughput
Managing tasks with timing constraints
Simplifying code

💡 Hint: Think about the goals of different operating systems.

Question 2

True or False: Context switching can increase performance overhead in an OS.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what happens during task switching.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a situation with two tasks writing to a shared global variable without synchronization. How would you design a system using an RTOS to handle this safely?

💡 Hint: Recall how synchronization primitives can protect shared resources.

Challenge 2 Hard

How might you measure and reduce context switching overhead in a real-time system?

💡 Hint: Think about balancing task priorities and execution times.

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