Which of the following statements about how Windows XP services a write I/O request is true?

a) The requesting thread passes an IRP to the I/O manager.
b) The I/O manager queries the target device's availability before it passes the IRP down the driver stack.
c) The I/O manager initializes each driver's location in the I/O stack of the IRP before sending the IRP to the top driver in the driver stack.
d) All drivers, except the lowest-level driver, can register an I/O completion routine for the IRP, which is called once the device finishes servicing the I/O request.


c) The I/O manager initializes each driver's location in the I/O stack of the IRP before sending the IRP to the top driver in the driver stack.

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You can have the Find/Change feature look for only upper- or lowercase versions of words by clicking the ____________________ button in the dialog box.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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A. ?ribbon B. ?banner C. ?title bar D. ?status bar

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