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What is a Monitor in synchronization?
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Concurrency & Synchronization MCQs
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Practice in Timed ModeQ2easy
What is a Condition Variable in the context of Monitors?
Q3easy
What does "Atomic Operation" mean in concurrency?
Q4hard
What happens if lock(A) is called twice by the same thread on a non- recursive mutex?
Q5medium
Which of the following is a classic problem used to demonstrate the need for synchronization in Producer-Consumer systems?
Q6hard
Which strategy involves killing a process to break a deadlock?
Q7easy
What is the primary requirement for a solution to the Critical Section Problem?
Q8easy
What is a Spinlock?
Q9medium
Analyze the code below. What potential issue does this create?
sync_example.c
void thread1() {
lock(A); lock(B);
}
Q10easy
What does the "Progress" condition in critical sections guarantee?