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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
Define a mutex in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think of it as a lock that grants access.
Question 2
Easy
What does a semaphore do?
💡 Hint: Remember its role in managing multiple resources.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What does a mutex do?
- A process that waits for conditions
- Allows only one process in a critical section
- Tracks multiple resource accesses
💡 Hint: Consider the meaning of mutual exclusion.
Question 2
True or False: A semaphore can only take on the values 0 or 1.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Remember the definitions of counting and binary semaphores.
Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Design a semaphore-based solution for a scenario where three producers and two consumers share a limited-sized buffer. Specify how you would implement the semaphores.
💡 Hint: Consider the resource counts for producers and consumers.
Question 2
Discuss how implementing monitors could simplify the solutions to the producer-consumer problem and readers-writers problem.
💡 Hint: Focus on the benefits of encapsulation and automated locking.
Challenge and get performance evaluation