1. In windows, the group of services and subsystems that support the kernel are called:
A) Environmental subsystems
B) Registers
C) Executive
D) Micro-Kernel
2. When a system can perform many functions simultaneously, this is called:
A) Multiprocessing
B) Multitasking
C) Context switching
D) Serial processing
3. The text segment in a user structure contains:
A) Parameters to pass to another function
B) Allocated variables
C) Unallocated variables
D) The program's code
4. The Unix scheduler is called a _____ scheduler.
A) Fair
B) Single round-robin
C) Equal quantum
D) Unequal time slice
5. singals are an example of:
A) Hardware interrupts
B) interprocess Communications (IPC)
C) A process controller
D) Events that only occur in windows
6. Disk device strive to write data to a disk drive in a _______
A) Physically contiguous manner
B) Logically contiguous manner
C) Both physically and logically contiguous manner
D) Neither logically nor physically contiguous manner
7. On both UNIX and Windows, a type of IPC that allows the output of one process to be sent as input to another process is called:
A) A pipe
B) A child process
C) A thread
D) A handle
8. In UNIX, the shell is:
A) Is part of the kernel
B) Not part of the kernel
C)Only accessible by the kernel
D) Is a graphical user interface (GUI)