In a magnetic disk that consists of concentric circular tracks, its seek latency isn’t proportional linearly to the seek distance, because of :

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a non-uniform distribution of all the requests

the use of arm scheduling policies that are unfair

a higher track capacity on the platter’s periphery

a starting and stopping inertia for arms

Correct Answer : Option (D) : a starting and stopping inertia for arms

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Q .

The principles of structured programming forbid the use of

GOTO

DO-WHILE

WHILE-DO

IF-THEN-ELSE

Correct Answer : Option (A) : GOTO

Q .

A compiler for a high-level language that runs on one machine and produces code for a different machine is called is

cross compiler

one pass compiler

multipass compiler

optimizing compiler

Correct Answer : Option (A) : cross compiler