ANONYMOUS wrote:
> in light of adding clarity to the question, would it be fair to deduct that The C11 standard defines 29 standard header files, covering essential functionalities required for C implementations, as explicitly listed in the ISO/IEC 9899:2011 specification, so thefore it would be b?
B) is certainly the correct answer. Yes, it's undoubtably defined in the (huge) standards document, but there is no requirement to read it to answer the question.
We've highlighted that C is quite a small language by contemporary standards (compare it to either Python and Java, and the number of their standard modules or packages). In lectures, labs, and workshops we've used (about) 8 standard header files. The document
https://en.kompf.de/cplus/cliblist.html linked from our "Information Resources" page, lists the contents of at least 15 header files (it's describing an older version of C, but standards never result in language/library features shrinking).
When this question was asked on a past mid-semester test, the great majority of students answered it correctly.