11. \"The process was placed in a suspended state by an agent; either itself, a
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11. "The process was placed in a suspended state by an agent; either itself, a parent process, or the OS, for the purpose of preventing its execution," is a characteristic of a _________ process.a) blocked
b) suspended
c) ready
d) swapped
12. A __________ is a unit of activity characterized by the execution of a sequence of instructions, a current state, and an associated set of system resources.
a) Process
b) Identifier
c) State
d) Kernel
13. It is the principal responsibility of the __________ to control the execution of processes.
a) dispatcher
b) process control block
c) memory
d) os
14. When a process is in the _________ state it is in secondary memory but is available for execution as soon as it is loaded into main memory.
a) Blocked
b) Ready
c) Blocked/Suspend
d) Ready/Suspend
15. The OS must maintain __________ tables to manage processes.
a) Process
b) I/O
c) Memory
d) File
16. A total of _________ process states are recognized by the UNIX SVR4 operating system.
a) 4
b) 9
c) 5
d) 15
17. In a multithreaded environment, a __________ is defined as the unit of resource allocation and a unit of protection.
a) String
b) Strand
c) Trace
d) Process
18. The principal disadvantage of the _________ approach is that the transfer of control from one thread to another within the same process requires a mode switch to the kernel.
a) KLT
b) ULT
c) PLT
d) LWP
19. A ________ is a user-created unit of execution within a process.
a) Kernel
b) KLT
c) Lightweight process
d) ULT
20. A Windows process must contain at least _________ thread(s) to execute.
a) Two
b) N
Explanation / Answer
11 b 12 a 13 d 14 a 15 b 16 d 17 a 18 b 19 a 20 d
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