1. Mention one similarity between a government of people and an OS with respect to enforcing rights.
2. Illustrate with examples the different impacts that latency and bandwidth make to the performance of a storage media (e.g., USB drive). In other words, list one example where latency is the dominant component to the performance of a storage media, and one example where bandwidth is dominant.
3. Mention three tasks that an OS performs with respect to process management.
4. If you run two copies of a browser (say Firefox), are these considered two distinct processes or just one? Provide a rationale for your answer.
5. Caches are used to improve what aspects of a computer's performance and how?
6. What is the difference between a user view of a computer system and a system view of it?
7. What are some examples of system programs and how do they differ with the kernel and application programs?
8. How does a computer on bootup know how to load the operating system?
9. How does the OS keep user programs from corrupting the entire system?
10. What are the differences between physical and virtual memory?
11. Why do we have no universal definition of an OS?
12. What advantages do clustered systems provide?