General Knowledge Quiz

a. Parallel execution is possible on a single processor.

b. Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once. (correct)

c. Concurrent execution and parallel execution can be combined. (correct)

d. Concurrent execution is possible on a single processor. (correct)

. A kernel has to exploit concurrency in order to be efficient.

b. A hardware trap caused by dereferencing an invalid pointer is synchronous to a running process. e. The kernel handles asynchronous interrupts that may not be visible by any running processes. (correct)

c. A software interrupt generated by a terminal program on user request is asynchronous to a running process.

d. A system call is asynchronous to a running process.