What must occur for a system to perform a context switch?
A) The kernel must save the current running process's execution context to the process's PCB.
B) The kernel must load the previous execution context of a ready process.
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

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A context switch involves saving the current process's state and loading the state of the next process to be executed, which corresponds to both A and B.

What Must Occur for a System to Perform a Context