Discussion
A section of code to which control is transferred when a processor is interrupted is known as
Answer: A
Correct answer: SVC
An SVC - supervisor call - is the routine the processor transfers control to when an interrupt occurs: the current instruction stream is suspended, the machine switches to supervisor state and enters that handler, which services the condition and then returns. IP is the instruction pointer and MDR the memory data register - both registers, not sections of code.
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