What are "race conditions"?
What will be an ideal response?
"Race conditions" refers to situations in which two threads, processes, or applications are able to modify a resource (and therefore interfere with each other) and the programmer has not taken precautions to ensure that the desired sequence of events is completed in the proper order. From a security standpoint, an attacker is looking to exploit the condition whereby a legitimate thread or process is consumed passing a code check and the malicious code slips by unnoticed.
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Two structure variables of the same type with the same member values, when compared will:
a. Always compare equally. b. Never compare equally. c. Sometimes compare equally. d. Result in a compile error.
An application-specific evaluation is designed to enable evaluators to __________.
a) determine which applications a system executes the best b) determine which system will execute an application (or group of applications) the best, regardless of how well the system executes other tasks c) compare the overall performance of two different systems d) both a and c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When comparing the net present values of projects, all things being equal, the project with the lowest net present value is the best investment.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)