Intellectual Olympiad in Operating Systems - 2026 ongoing

Subject: Operating Systems
Level: VII (I is easiest, XII is hardest)
Category: student
Question language: English
Questions: 15
Example question: A thread calls a condition-variable wait while holding a mutex. What does a correct implementation normally do before blocking the thread? Atomically release the mutex and place the thread in the condition-variable wait set, Destroy the mutex so other threads can enter the critical section, Keep the mutex locked until the waiting thread is scheduled again, Convert the mutex into a counting semaphore with value zero