This is an individual assignment. Answers should be your own work, in your own words. Most answers should be more than a few sentences and up to half a page in length. An answer that is too brief or simple will not get full credit. 6 problems, 16 points each Chapter 11) How can interrupts be used to improve processor utilization during I/O activity?2) How is DMA an improvement over interrupt-driven I/O?3) Why does a memory cache result in better processor performance?

Chapter 24) How can two or more programs be run at the same time if there is only one processor?5) What does it mean to be multithreaded?6) What is SMP?