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Chapter 1 - COIS 3320H
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1The operating system manages each and every piece of hardware and software.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2The Memory Manager, the Interface Manager, the User Manager, and the File Manager are the four essential managers of every major operating system.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3Networking was not always an integral part of operating systems.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4The Memory Manager is in charge of main memory, widely known as ROM.
- ATrue
- BFalse
5The content of a random access memory (RAM) chip is nonvolatile, meaning that it is not erased when the power is turned off.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6The Device Manager is responsible for connecting with every device that’s available on the system and for choosing the most efficient way to allocate them.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7An important function of the Processor Manager is to keep track of the status of each job, process, and thread
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Operating systems with networking capability have a fifth essential manager called the Network Manager that provides a convenient way for authorized users to share resources.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9There are two primary types of user interfaces: the graphical user interface and the command line interface.
- ATrue
- BFalse
10When executing a job, the File Manager determines whether a user request requires that a file be retrieved from storage or whether it is already in memory.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer with the circuitry to control the interpretation and execution of instructions.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Batch systems date from early computers, when each job consisted of a stack of chips entered into the system as a unit known as a stack.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Onboard systems are computers that are physically placed inside the products that they operate to add features and capabilities
- ATrue
- BFalse
14General-purpose operating systems such as Linux or Windows are used in embedded systems.
- ATrue
- BFalse
15The first bug was a moth trapped in a Harvard computer
- ATrue
- BFalse
16The buffers used in the 1950s to reduce the discrepancy in speed between the I/O and the CPU were conceptually similar to those now used routinely by Web browsers to make video and audio playback smoother
- ATrue
- BFalse
17In active multiprogramming schemes, a job can monopolize the CPU for a long time while all other jobs waited.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18In the 1980s, as a result of multiprocessing techniques, it became possible to execute two programs at the same time in parallel.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19With distributed operating systems, users need to be aware of which processor is actually running their applications.
- ATrue
- BFalse
20In the 2010s, chips with millions of transistors that were very close together helped increase system performance dramatically.
- ATrue
- BFalse
21The ____ is often very different from one operating system to the next, sometimes even between different versions of the same operating system.
- AUser Interface
- BProcess Manager
- CMemory Manager
- DFile Manager
22A ____ chip holds software that is used to start the computer.
- ARAM
- BROM
- CCPU
- Dbuffer
23The ____ uniquely identifies each resource, starts its operation, monitors its progress, and, finally, deallocates it, making the operating system available to the next waiting process.
- ADevice Manager
- BFile Manager
- CKeyboard Manager
- DMemory Manager
24Each peripheral device has its own software, called a(n) ____, which contains the detailed instructions required to start that device, allocate it to a job, use the device correctly, and deallocate it when it’s appropriat
- Adevice controller
- Bdevice software
- Cdevice handler
- Ddevice driver
25____ is the practice of using Internet-connected resources to perform processing, storage, or other operations.
- ACloud computing
- BCommand line interfacing
- CProcess management
- DNetwork management
26____ is where the data and instructions of a computer must reside to be processed.
- ACPU
- BMain memory
- CRead-only memory
- DI/O memory
27The efficiency of a batch system is measured in ____, which is the number of jobs completed in a given amount of time.
- Aprocesses
- Bthreads
- Cthroughput
- Dturnaround time
28____ systems are used in time-critical environments where reliability is key and data must be processed within a strict time limit.
- AEmbedded
- BHybrid
- CInteractive
- DReal-time
29There are two types of real-time systems depending on the consequences of missing the deadline. A ____ real-time system risks total system failure if the predicted time deadline is missed
- Aconstrained
- Brestricted
- Csoft
- Dhard
30A hybrid system is a combination of ____ systems.
- Abatch and interactive
- Bbatch and real-time
- Cinteractive and real-time
- Dreal-time and general-purpose
31The name for the core portion of an operating system is the ____.
- Amanager
- Bcenter
- Cnucleus
- Dkernel
32____ means that several logical records are grouped within one physical record.
- AGrouping
- BFixing
- CCombining
- DBlocking
33Starting in the 1950s, to reduce the discrepancy in speed between the I/O and the CPU, an interface called the ____ was placed between them to act as a buffer.
- Acontrol unit
- Bscheduler
- Cholder
- Dbuffer manager
34The most common mechanism for implementing multiprogramming was the introduction of the ____ concept, whereby the CPU was notified of events needing operating systems services
- Apaging
- Bsharing
- Cmessaging
- Dinterrupt
35A system with ____ divides programs into parts and keep them in secondary storage, bringing each part into memory only as it is needed
- Avirtual memory
- Bshared memory
- Csegmented processing
- Dpassive multiprogramming
36In active multiprogramming, each program is allowed to use only a preset amount of CPU time before it is interrupted so another job can begin its execution. The interrupted job resumes execution at some later time. This idea is called ____.
- Ashared processing
- BCPU sharing
- Ctime slicing
- Ddistributed processing
37The word ____ is used to indicate that a program is permanently held in ROM (read only memory), as opposed to being held in secondary storage.
- Ahardware
- Bfirmware
- Csoftware
- Dshareware
38____ allows separate partitions of a single server to support different operating
- AMultiprocessing
- BMultithreading
- CVirtualization
- DShared processing
39With ____ operating systems, users can think they are working with a system using one processor, when in fact they are connected to a cluster of many processors working closely together.
- Apaged
- Bdistributed
- Cembedded
- Dbuffered
40With the development of ____ technology, a single chip was equipped with two or more processor cores.
- Amultiprogramming
- Bmultimedia
- Cnetworking
- Dmulticore
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