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CS 1550 – Quiz 1

Please answer the following questions.  You have 25 minutes to complete this quiz. (50 points)

1.) (10 points) List two things that would be part of a process table entry (PTE) but not a thread table entry.

2.) (10 points) What is the difference between mechanism and policy?

3.) (20 points) List an advantage and a disadvantage of both User Threads and a Kernel threads.

	User Threading	Kernel Threading
Advantage
Disadvantage

4.) (10 points) Under Shortest Job First, if the following jobs (with indicated processing times) arrived at time zero, what would be the Average Turnaround Time and the Throughput? Show your work.

A (6)

B (4)

C (10)

D (8)

E (2)