Question

An interrupt that can be temporarily ignored is ___________

(a) Vectored interrupt

(b) Non-maskable interrupt

(c) Maskable interrupt

(d) High priority interrupt

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Answer 1

Right choice is (c) Maskable interrupt

The explanation: The maskable interrupts are usually low priority interrupts which can be ignored if a higher priority process is being executed.