Q. What happens when a program calls the GetMessageWin32 API and there are no messages in the queue?

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Q. What does the kernel do when an application performs a slow I/O operation?

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Q. What is preemptive scheduling?

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Q. What is a thread's quantum?

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Q. How does the operating system monitor how long a thread has been running?

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Q. What happens when a thread's quantum is up?

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Q. How does the kernel ensure that a thread has no idea that it was ever interrupted?

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Q. What is the main challenge of synchronizing multiple threads in the same program?

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Q. What do synchronization objects allow two or more threads to do?

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Q. What is the purpose of putting blocked threads in a special wait state?

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Q. Why must the scheduler be aware of synchronization objects?

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Q. What are synchronization objects used for in multithreaded programming?

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Q. What is an event in multithreaded programming?

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Q. How does a mutex work in multithreaded programming?

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Q. What is the difference between a mutex and a critical section in multithreaded programming?

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Q. What is the purpose of semaphores in multithreaded programming?

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Q. What is the first step taken by the system in an average process creation sequence?

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Q. What is the responsibility of LdrpInitialize in the process initialization sequence?

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Q. What is the responsibility of LdrpRunInitializeRoutines in the process initialization sequence?

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Q. What is the responsibility of BaseProcessStart in the process initialization sequence?

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