1 votes 1 votes How many states can a process be in ? $3$ $4$ $2$ $5$ Others ugcnetcse-june2011-paper2 operating-system process-scheduling + – makhdoom ghaya asked Aug 30, 2016 retagged Oct 23, 2018 by Pooja Khatri makhdoom ghaya 2.3k views answer comment Share Follow See all 2 Comments See all 2 2 Comments reply Pankaj kumar commented Aug 31, 2016 reply Follow Share i think question is not about total no of states. 0 votes 0 votes Ritwik commented Jun 14, 2017 reply Follow Share Had it asked, 'how many states can a process be in' + 'at a single time'? Answer would be 1. But without the latter, it becomes, the total number of states a process can be in, which depends on which process model are we using as a reference. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 4 votes 4 votes ans is D ) 5 states New , Ready ,Running, Waiting, Terminated ) process states are arbitary and may vary across Sanjay Sharma answered Aug 31, 2016 selected Aug 31, 2016 by vijaycs Sanjay Sharma comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes I understand the urge to select Option (D) as the correct answer to this question as it is the most widely accepted model, but the question is ambiguous. Because, we don't know which process state model should we choose among - 2 , 3, 5, 7 state models. Reference 1 Reference 2 Ritwik answered Jun 14, 2017 Ritwik comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.