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Module 2: Processes & Scheduling

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Which type of thread is managed directly by the operating system kernel?

(i) User-level thread
(ii) Kernel-level thread
(iii) Single thread
(iv) Background thread

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Answer: (ii) Kernel-level thread

Kernel threads are managed directly by kernel (visible to scheduler). User-level threads are managed by user library, kernel unaware. Kernel threads allow true parallelism on multicore but have higher creation/scheduling overhead.

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