Multiple choice

The only state transition initiated by the user process itself is

  1. wakeup

  2. block

  3. dispatch

  4. sleep

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A process can only initiate the 'block' transition itself when it requests I/O. Other transitions like wakeup (timer I/O completion), dispatch (scheduler decision), and sleep are system-initiated by the OS.