Fun Quiz CSC207 Group 3B (5 Nov 2024)

What is a thread?

• A lightweight process

• A heavy-weight process

• A type of operating system

• A sub-set of a main process

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using threads?

• Economy

• Increased memory usage

• Resource Sharing

• Responsiveness

What does a thread share with other threads in the same process?

• Program counter

• Code section

• Stack

• Thread ID

In a multithreaded application, which of the following is an example of a task that could be handled by a separate thread?

• Shutting down the application

• Creating a new process

• Opening a file

• Loading a webpage

What is the main difference between concurrency and parallelism?

• Concurrency requires more resources than parallelism

• Parallelism is only possible in single-core systems

• Concurrency is faster than parallelism

• Concurrency allows tasks to make progress, while parallelism executes tasks simultaneously

Which of the following best describes a multi-core system?

• Multiple CPUs on separate chips

• A single CPU with multiple threads

• Multiple cores on a single processing chip

• A system with no threads

What is an example of a multithreaded application?

• A simple text editor

• A web browser

• An operating system kernel

• A command line interface

What is the primary reason for using threads in modern applications?

• To reduce the number of processes

• To simplify user interfaces

• To increase the size of the application

• To allow multiple tasks to run simultaneously

Which of the following describes data parallelism?

• Using a single core for all tasks

• Distributing subsets of the same data across multiple cores

• Distributing threads across cores

• Running multiple applications at once

What happens when one thread is writing to a file?

• The file is locked for all other threads

• The thread will crash

• The file will be deleted

• Another thread can write to the file simultaneously