When an interrupt causes temporary suspension of the program in progress, all the pertinent information about the program being suspended, including the location of the last instruction executed, and the values of data in various registers are stored in an area of memory known as the:

Process Control Block  

Explanation:

  The process control block is one of the type of data structure concept that helps in storing the various types of data in the system for the purpose of managing and scheduling for the specific process.

 The process control block concept is important for data management process and it is also refers as the task control. The main role of the process control block is that it can easily access  the various types of operating system utilities which include scheduling, resource access and the memory process.

According to the question, on the basis of the given information the suspension pf the given program and in the memory area is known as the process control block.

 Therefore, Process control block is the correct answer.

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