Ch 4 True/False

1. 1A traditional (or heavyweight) process has a single thread of control.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
2. 2A thread is composed of a thread ID, program counter, register set, and heap.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
3. 3Virtually all contemporary operating systems support kernel threads.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
4. 4Linux distinguishes between processes and threads.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
5. 5In Java, data shared between threads is simply declared globally.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
6. 6Each thread has its own register set and stack.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
7. 7Deferred cancellation is preferred over asynchronous cancellation.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
8. 8The single benefit of a thread pool is to control the number of threads.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
9. 9It is possible to create a thread library without any kernel-level support.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
10. 10It is possible to have concurrency without parallelism.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse

11. 11Amdahl's Law describes performance gains for applications with both a serial and parallel component.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
12. 12OpenMP only works for C, C++, and Fortran programs.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
13. 13Grand Central Dispatch requires multiple threads.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
14. 14The trend in developing parallel applications is to use implicit threading.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
15. 15Task parallelism distributes threads and data across multiple computing cores.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse

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Computer Science Quiz on Ch 4 True/False, created by Storm Davis on 26/04/2019.

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