Question

Bounded capacity and Unbounded capacity queues are referred to as __________

(a) Programmed buffering

(b) Automatic buffering

(c) User defined buffering

(d) No buffering

This question was posed to me in a national level competition.

This is a very interesting question from Inter Process Communication in section Processes of Operating System

Answer 1

The correct choice is (b) Automatic buffering

The best explanation: Bounded capacity and Unbounded capacity queues are referred to as Automatic buffering. Buffer capacity of the Bounded capacity queue is finite length and buffer capacity of the Unbounded queue is infinite.