Role of Multithreading in Multitasking

Question 1

What is multitasking?

Accepted Answer

The ability of an OS to run multiple tasks at once

Question 2

What are the two types of multitasking?

Accepted Answer

Preemptive and cooperative

Question 3

In multitasking, how many tasks use the CPU at one time?

Accepted Answer

One

Question 4

What is multithreading?

Accepted Answer

Concurrent execution of multiple threads in one process

Question 5

How do threads in multitasking operate?

Accepted Answer

Independently but share resources

Question 6

Give an example of multithreading

Accepted Answer

A browser loading multiple tabs

Question 7

How does multithreading improve efficiency?

Accepted Answer

By reducing process context switching

Question 8

How does multithreading improve responsiveness?

Accepted Answer

By handling inputs and background tasks together

Question 9

How does multithreading enhance parallelism?

Accepted Answer

By distributing threads across CPU cores

Question 10

What challenge comes with multithreading?

Accepted Answer

Complexity in synchronization

Question 11

What is harder in multithreaded applications?

Accepted Answer

Debugging due to race conditions or deadlocks

Question 12

How does multitasking differ from multithreading?

Accepted Answer

Multitasking uses processes, multithreading uses threads

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