If you are working with scheduling policies, you are requested to investigate the variation of round robin in which a process that has used its full time quantum is returned to the end of the READY...

If you are working with scheduling policies, you are requested to investigate the variation of round robin in which a process that has used its full time quantum is returned to the end of the READY queue, while one that has used half of its time quantum is returned to the middle of the queue and one that has used one-fourth of its time quantum goes to a place one-fourth of the distance away from the beginning of the queue.

Question 5

• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of this scheduling policy.


• Identify the user group that would find this most advantageous.


• Describe the unique threats to a data centre posed by disgruntled employees. Describe how you would identify such people, if possible, and how you would protect your system from these threats.


• What are the parameters that affect the efficiency of the round robin?