You Have Just Installed a Single Quad-Core Processor onto a New

question 12

Multiple Choice

You have just installed a single quad-core processor onto a new computer motherboard and installed Windows 10. When Windows 10 boots, you run Task Manager and it reports 8 logical processors. If the CPU is a quad-core processor, why is Task Manager reporting 8 logical processors?

• A) Each processor core always contains two logical processors.
• B) Windows has a bug in it that incorrectly reports the number of processors.
• C) The CPU is a hyper-threading processor.
• D) Quad-core means that the CPU has 8 processor cores.

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