Question

Which of the following stores all the task information that the system requires?

(a) task access block

(b) register

(c) accumulator

(d) task control block

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I would like to ask this question from Multitasking Operating Systems topic in division Real Time Operating systems of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) task control block

The explanation is: The task control block stores all the task information that the system requires and this is done when the context switch is performed so that the currently running program is interrupted.