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What component of a process stores the address of the next instruction to be executed?
Program counter
During a context switch, what happens to the state of the currently running process?
It is saved for later resumption
Which section of a process contains dynamically allocated memory?
Stack
What is the primary function of the Process Control Block (PCB) in an operating system?
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When a process is in the 'Ready' state, what does this indicate about its execution?
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In Linux, how are processes identified and managed within the system?
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What is the primary benefit of using threads in modern applications?
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Which type of parallelism distributes subsets of the same data across multiple cores?
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What is Amdahl's Law used to identify?
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Which thread model allows many user-level threads to be mapped to many kernel threads?
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Which thread library provides an API for thread creation and synchronization and is common in UNIX operating systems?
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In Java, what is the standard practice for creating threads?
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