Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 5.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What information can you find out about a process?
2. How accurate is the Stopwatch class?
3. By convention, what suffix should be applied to a method that returns Task or Task<T>?
4. To use the await keyword inside a method, what keyword must be applied to the method declaration?
5. How do you create a child task?
6. Why should you avoid the lock keyword?
7. When should you use the Interlocked class?
8. When should you use the Mutex class instead of the Monitor class?
9. What is the benefit of using async and await in a website or web service?
10. Can you cancel a task? If so, how?

Exercise 5.2 – Explore topics

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