Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering

Q1:

A form of code that uses more than one process and processor, possibly of different type, and that may on occasions have more than one process or processor active at the same time, is known as

A multiprogramming

B multi threading

C broadcasting

D time sharing

E None of the above

ANS:B - multi threading

Multithreading is a type of execution model that allows multiple threads to exist within the context of a process such that they execute independently but share their process resources. Eg: Web Browser.