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The mechanism that is executed at certain privilege levels, determined by CPL (Current Privilege Level) and I/O privilege level (IOPL) is

a.

restricted use of segments

b.

restricted accesses to segments

c.

privileged instructions or operations

d.

none of the mentioned

Answer: (c).privileged instructions or operations

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