Threading

Question 1

When is a thread blocked?

Answer 1

A thread is deemed blocked when its execution is halted for some reason, such as when sleeping, waiting or joining.

Question 2

Which method explicitly uses a thread pool?

Answer 2

Task.Run

Question 3

What does maintaining good hygiene in the thread pool mean?

Answer 3

Ensuring that the pool is not over subscribed.

Question 4

What are the two operations that a thread can block on?

Answer 4

1) Compute or CPU bound

2) I/O bound

Question 5

What type of asynchronous function should you invoke for compute-bound operations?

Answer 5

Multi-threading

Question 6

What type of asynchronous function should you invoke for I/O-bound operations?

Answer 6

Callbacks