Question

Which of the following stops execution of a thread?

(a) Calling SetPriority() method on a Thread object

(b) Calling notify() method on an object

(c) Calling wait() method on an object

(d) Calling read() method on an InputStream object

I have been asked this question during a job interview.

The query is from Multithreading topic in chapter Multithreading of Java

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Calling notify() method on an object

Explanation: notify() wakes up a single thread which is waiting for this object.