Question

16)

a) The less-privileged processor execution mode is often referred to as kernel mode.
   True
   False

b)

A ____________ is a single execution path with an execution stack; processor state; and scheduling information.

domain

strand

message

Thread

c) Modern operating systems; like Windows 10 and Linux; are multi-programming single-threaded systems
   True
   False

d)

Suppose a process can have 90% of it successfully parallelized. According to Amdhal's law; what speedup will we obtain if we have 9 processors to run the parallelized algorithm on?

5.0

3.57

1.22

10.0

e)

A process is in the ___________ state when it is in main memory and awaiting an event.

Blocked

Ready

Blocked / Suspended

Running

Answer 1

a) False

b) Thread

c) False

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