How do you stop a running task named 'driveTask'?

• A. stopTask(driveTask);
• B. killTask(driveTask);
• C. endTask(driveTask);
• D. pauseTask(driveTask);

Answer: (A)

Stopping a running task is done by sending a stop signal to that task, which terminates its execution right away so the system can reallocate time to other tasks. In this context, you tell the system to halt the specific task by calling stopTask with the task’s name as the argument. So stopping the driveTask means issuing stopTask(driveTask); this immediately ends its thread of execution and frees up resources for the rest of the program.

Pause would only suspend the task, not fully stop it, so the task could resume later. EndTask and KillTask imply different or unsupported semantics in this environment, and wouldn’t reliably stop the task in the same immediate, definitive way.