Five Jobs Are Waiting to Be Processed

question 74

Multiple Choice

Five jobs are waiting to be processed. Their processing times and due dates are given below. Using the earliest due date dispatching rule, in which order should the jobs be processed?

• A) C, E, A, D, B
• B) A, B, C, D, E
• C) B, D, A, E, C
• D) C, B, A, E, D
• E) B, D, A, C, E

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Definitions:

Cardinality

In the context of databases, it refers to the uniqueness of data values contained in a column. Higher cardinality means more unique values.

Cardinality

In database design, the numerical attributions of relationships between entities, indicating the degree of association such as one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many.

Hyperlinks

Elements in electronic documents that link to another section of the same document or to an entirely different document.

Join Operation

A database operation that combines records from two or more tables in a database.