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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-08

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Q1. What is data parallelism primarily focused on?

🔹 A. Distributing tasks across multiple cores
🔹 B. Distributing subsets of the same data across multiple cores and performing the same operation
🔹 C. Performing different operations on different data
🔹 D. Distributing threads across multiple processors

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. In a dual-core system performing data parallelism on an array of size N, how would the data be distributed?

🔹 A. Thread A: elements [0]...[N-1]; Thread B: elements [0]...[N-1]
🔹 B. Thread A: elements [0]...[N/2-1]; Thread B: elements [N/2]...[N-1]
🔹 C. Thread A: elements [0]...[N/4-1]; Thread B: elements [N/4]...[N/2-1]
🔹 D. Both threads work on all elements

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: B

Q3. In most real-world applications, which parallelism strategy is commonly used?

🔹 A. Strictly data parallelism
🔹 B. Strictly task parallelism
🔹 C. A hybrid of data and task parallelism
🔹 D. Neither data nor task parallelism

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

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