CS101 Important Solved MCQs

When wildfires overwhelm California's power grid, they deliberately cut electricity to some cities. To save the whole grid. Engineers do the same thing in software. It's called load shedding. System at 95% capacity? Don't try to serve everyone equally. That crashes everything. Instead: drop low-priority requests first. LOW PRIORITY → dropped: recommendations, extras HIGH PRIORITY → kept: payments, logins, checkout Users see degraded experience. But the core still works. Google calls it graceful