In Active Multiprogramming,each Program Is Allowed to Use Only a Preset

question 19

Multiple Choice

In active multiprogramming,each program is allowed to use only a preset amount of CPU time before it is interrupted so another job can begin its execution.The interrupted job resumes execution at some later time.This idea is called ____.

• A) shared processing
• B) CPU sharing
• C) time slicing
• D) distributed processing

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