Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) A runnable thread transitions to the blocked state when it attempts to perform a task that cannot be completed immediately and it must temporarily wait until that task completes.
• B) When a thread issues an input/output request, the operating system blocks the thread from executing until that I/O request completes-at that point, the blocked thread transitions to the runnable state, so it can resume execution.
• C) A blocked thread cannot use a processor, even if one is available.
• D) Each of the above statements is true.

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Definitions:

Distribution

In statistics, it describes the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, particularly the way that values of a variable or dataset are spread or dispersed.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average squared deviation from the mean.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information in a dataset that are available for estimating a parameter or calculating a statistic.

Student t Distribution

A probability distribution that is used in hypothesis testing for small sample sizes, when the population standard deviation is unknown.