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1) Consider the following statements. 1 point

About S1: If a program has a data race, it may or may not show up in an SC execution.
NPTEL ()
S2: Two vector clocks are always comparable.

How does an
NPTEL Only S1 is true.
online
Only S2 is true.
course
work? () Both S1 and S2 are true.
Both S1 and S2 are false.
Week 1 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 2 () Accepted Answers:
Only S1 is true.
Week 3 ()
2) PLSC translates the axioms of ____________. 1 point
Week 4 ()
Parallelism

Week 5 () Multi-threading
Coherence
Week 6 () Multi-tasking

Yes, the answer is correct.

Week 7 ()
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Week 8 () Coherence

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3) Which two factors determine a memory model? 1 point

Week 9 ()
Shared resources, coherence
Week 10 ()
Access delay, miss rate
Write atomicity, program-order
Week 11 ()
Shared variables, locks in a system
Week 12 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Multicore Accepted Answers:
Systems (Part Write atomicity, program-order
- VIII) (unit?
unit=94&lesso
4) Consider the following statements. 1 point
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Multicore S1: Eager version management writes directly to the memory.

Systems (Part S2: Eager version management does not require maintaining an undo log.
- IX) (unit?
unit=94&lesso
n=153) Only S1 is true.
Feedback Only S2 is true.
Form (unit? Both S1 and S2 are true.
unit=94&lesso
Both S1 and S2 are false.
n=154)
No, the answer is incorrect.
Quiz: Week Score: 0
12 :
Accepted Answers:
Assignment
Only S1 is true.
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(assessment?
name=184)
5) ___________ transaction management checks for conflicts as soon as a transaction 1 point
accesses a memory location.
Download
Videos () Eager
Lazy
Transcript () Atomic
Non-Atomic

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Eager

6) Which of the following are the two types of concurrency control? 1 point

Transactional, Non-transactional
Optimistic, pessimistic
Eager, lazy
Atomic, Non-atomic

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Optimistic, pessimistic

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7) Which sequential ordering is consistent with the real-time ordering? 1 point

Serializable
Strictly serializable
Eager
Lazy
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Strictly serializable

8) Bartok STM applies _________version management and ________ conflict 1 point

detection.

Eager, lazy
Lazy, eager
Optimistic, pessimistic
Pessimistic, Optimistic

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Eager, lazy

9) Consider the following statements. 1 point

S1: TL2 STM uses lazy version management.

S2: TL2 STM uses a global timestamp.

Only S1 is true.
Only S2 is true.
Both S1 and S2 are true.
Both S1 and S2 are false.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Both S1 and S2 are true.

10) Which of the following is FALSE about software transactional memory (STM)? 1 point

STM systems do not handle non-transactional accesses

Acquiring and releasing locks is expensive in STM.
Maintaining undo and redo logs is difficult.
STM is much faster than hardware transactional memory (HTM).

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
STM is much faster than hardware transactional memory (HTM).

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