📝 Process synchronization in Windows

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-09

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Q1. What mechanism does the Windows kernel use to protect global resources on a single-processor system?

🔹 A. Spinlocks

🔹 B. Interrupt masking

🔹 C. Dispatcher objects

🔹 D. Critical sections

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. When does a critical-section object allocate a kernel mutex?

🔹 A. Immediately upon creation

🔹 B. Never, it only uses spinlocks

🔹 C. When it spins too long waiting for the object

🔹 D. When a thread first attempts to acquire it

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: C

Q3. Which statement best describes the relationship between Windows dispatcher objects and thread waiting queues?

🔹 A. Each dispatcher object has one waiting queue

🔹 B. Threads can only wait on one object at a time

🔹 C. The kernel moves waiting threads to ready state when object signals

🔹 D. All threads waiting on an object are moved to ready state simultaneously

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

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