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Python: Which statement about Locks and Race Conditions is the strongest interview answer?

Difficulty:

Easy

Questions:

1

Time Limit:

2 minutes

Passing Score:

100%

Question

Which statement about Locks and Race Conditions is the strongest interview answer?

  1. Race conditions happen when correctness depends on the interleaving of concurrent access to shared state.
  2. Locks and Race Conditions is mostly a naming style choice and has little effect on runtime behavior or design tradeoffs.
  3. Locks and Race Conditions exists mainly to reduce the number of files in a Python project.
  4. Locks and Race Conditions matters only for frontend scripting and not for backend or automation code.

Hint

Start with the core rule behind Locks and Race Conditions.

Answer and rationale

Correct answer: A. Race conditions happen when correctness depends on the interleaving of concurrent access to shared state.

Race conditions happen when correctness depends on the interleaving of concurrent access to shared state. This is the base concept interviewers commonly test first.

Track: Python