Your Colleague Who Is a Programmer Has Written an Application

question 14

Multiple Choice

Your colleague who is a programmer has written an application that must be able to monitor several sensors while performing calculations on the data read from the sensors. Both parts of the application must run simultaneously. What CPU and OS feature is required to properly run his application?

• A) multithreading
• B) cooperative multitasking
• C) clustering
• D) privileged mode

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