Questions

The author of the book 'Indica' was Megasthanese.

Testing is a process used for revealing defects in s/w and for establishing that the s/w has attained a specific degree of quality.

The s/w testing group’s main objective is to ensure that the s/w is doing what it is supposed to do as well as the s/w is not doing what it is not supposed to do. With this objective, it is clear that it is necessary to have a separate group for testing the s/w other than the group which developed it.

Also, bugs in the s/w can cause severe monetary as well as other loss to the organization. So it is important to allocate some budget for the testing group.

1. Mutual exclusion (where at least one resource is non-sharable)

2. Hold and wait (where a process holds one resource and waits for other resource)

3. No preemption (where the resources can’t be preempted)

4. Circular wait (where p[i] is waiting for p[j] to release a resource. i= 1,2,…n

j=if (i!=n) then i+1

else 1 )

Any type of insurance, be it home, auto, life, health, etc. are based on a principle of division of risk.

Division of Risk :: This is based on how much risk the insurer estimates the insured's coverage to be. The riskier the opportunity (bad health, area the home is in) the higher the premium costs.

The principal hormone secreted by the corpus luteum is progesterone. Menstruation is triggered by a drop in the levels of progesterone.

England has hosted the ICC World Cup most times. In 1975, 1979, 1983, 1999 & 2019 it hosted.