Just how important is fairness compared to other goals of disk scheduling disciplines?

What will be an ideal response?


It is important, but the point is that it is only one of many (possibly conflicting) goals;
as such it should be seriously considered but never made an absolute goal. Over a period of
time many users might be willing to trade a decrease in fairness for an increase in throughput,
for example.

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Class IntStream provides terminal operations for common stream ________—count returns the number of elements, min returns the smallest int, max returns the largest int, sum returns the sum of all the ints and average returns an OptionalDouble (package java.util) containing the average of the ints as a value of type double.

a. consolidations b. deductions c. reductions d. trims

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AES is a block cipher that translates fixed-size blocks of unencrypted data into corresponding fixed-sized blocks of encrypted data.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Object-oriented approaches use the industry standard for modeling object-oriented systems, called ________ to break down a system into a use case model.

A) Extensible Markup Language (XML) B) HyperText Markup Language (HTML) C) Unified Modeling Language (UML) D) Vector Markup Language (VML)

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________ is/are used to copy a series of data based on a pattern into adjacent cells

A) A fill handle B) Cut and Paste C) Paste Special D) Copy and Paste

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