Deck 1: Introducing Operating Systems

Question 1

Networking was not always an integral part of operating systems.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Until the mid-1970s, all computers were classified by price alone.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Memory Manager, the Interface Manager, the User Manager, and the File Manager are the basis of all operating systems.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

An operating system is a special type of hardware.

Question 5

The Device Manager monitors every device, channel, and control unit.

Question 6

The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer with the circuitry to control the interpretation and execution of instructions.

Question 7

Real-time systems are used in time-critical environments where reliability is key and data must be processed within a strict time limit.

Question 8

The operating system manages each and every piece of hardware and software.

Question 9

Operating systems with networking capability have a fifth essential manager called the Network Manager that provides a convenient way for users to share resources while controlling users' access to them.

Question 10

The File Manager is responsible for data files but not program files.

Question 11

Onboard systems are computers placed inside other products to add features and capabilities.

Question 12

The first bug was a moth trapped in a Harvard computer.

Question 13

Since the mid-1970s rapid advances in computer technology have blurred the distinguishing characteristics of early machines.

Question 14

The high-level portion of the Process Manager is called the Process Scheduler.

Question 15

The Intel 4004 chip in 1971 had 2,300 transistors while the Pentium II chip twenty years later had 7.5 million, and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor introduced in 2004 had 178 trillion transistors.

Question 16

When the Processor Manager receives a command, it determines whether the program must be retrieved from storage or is already in memory, and then notifies the appropriate manager.

Question 17

Card systems date from the earliest computers, which relied on punched cards or tape for input when a job was entered by assembling the cards into a deck and running the entire deck of cards through a card reader as a group.

Question 18

The minicomputer of the 1970s was smaller than the microcomputer.

Question 19

The supercomputer was developed primarily for government applications needing massive and fast number-crunching ability to carry out military operations and weather forecasting.

Question 20

The Memory Manager is in charge of indirect memory, also known as ROM.

Question 21

A supercomputer can perform ____ floating-point operations per second.

A) 240 million
B) 2.4 billion
C) 2.4 trillion
D) 24 trillion

Question 22

____ operating systems are typically used for a network platform.

A) IRIX, UNICOS
B) Linux, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows 2000/XP
C) Linux, NetWare, UNIX, Windows
D) IBM OS/390, UNIX

Question 23

____ include(s) every peripheral unit in the system such as printers, disk drives, CD/DVD drives, flash memory, keyboards, and so on.

A) The CPU
B) I/O Devices
C) Processors
D) Secondary components

Question 24

____ systems are used in time-critical environments where reliability is key and data must be processed within a strict time limit.

A) Embedded
B) Hybrid
C) Interactive
D) Real-time

Question 25

Few major advances were made in data management during the 1960s.

Question 26

The ____ allocates each resource, starts its operation, and, finally, deallocates the resource, making it available to the next process or job.

A) Device Manager
B) File Manager
C) Keyboard Manager
D) Memory Manager

Question 27

____ means that several logical records are grouped within one physical record.

A) Grouping
B) Fixing
C) Combining
D) Blocking

Question 28

____, part of the operating system, is unique to each operating system.

A) User Command Interface
B) Process Manager
C) Memory Manager
D) File Manager

Question 29

In a computer, the ____ holds the Central Processing Unit, the Arithmetic and Logic Unit, registers, cache, and main memory.

A) parallel system
B) USB interface
C) tower
D) monitor

Question 30

Vacuum tube computers were used during the period of ____.

A) 1920s-1930s
B) 1935-1945
C) 1940-1955
D) 1945-1960

Question 31

Many early programs used convoluted logic that only the original programmer could understand, so it was nearly impossible for anyone else to debug or change the program later on.

Question 32

Powerful microcomputers developed for use by commercial, educational and government enterprises are called ____.

A) supercomputers
B) minicomputers
C) terminals
D) workstations

Question 33

If the control unit has two buffers, the second buffer can be loaded while the first buffer is transmitting its contents to or from the CPU.

Question 34

Second-generation computers were developed to meet the needs of ____.

A) the government
B) businesses
C) secondary education
D) scientific labs

Question 35

____ introduced the need for control cards, which defined the exact nature of each program and its requirements.

A) Job scheduling
B) Control scheduling
C) Job control
D) Structure control

Question 36

A process requires space in main memory where it resides during its execution although, from time to time, it requires other resources such as data files or I/O devices.

Question 37

The primary distinguishing characteristic of modern computers is ____.

A) memory capacity
B) processor capacity
C) disk space
D) physical size

Question 38

In the 1950s, only one FORTRAN program could run at a time, and then the FORTRAN compiler had to be reloaded into memory.

Question 39

The type of system designed to perform one specific function is ____.

A) Real-time
B) Interactive
C) Embedded
D) Hybrid

Question 40

A hybrid system is a combination of the ____ systems.

A) batch and interactive
B) batch and real-time
C) interactive and real-time
D) real-time and general-purpose

Question 41

In second-generation computers, 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.

A) control unit
B) scheduler
C) holder
D) buffer manager

Question 42

A thread (or ____) can be defined as a unit smaller than a process, which can be scheduled and executed.

A) heavyweight process
B) lightweight process
C) kernel
D) distributor

Question 43

A typical ____ computer houses devices to perform audio, video, and graphic creation and editing.

A) multiprocessor
B) multimedia
C) networked
D) PDA

Question 44

The overwhelming demand for ____ capability in the mid-1990s sparked the proliferation of networking capability.

A) e-mail
B) processing
C) Internet
D) FTP

Question 45

The ____ is used to indicate that a program is permanently held in ROM (read only memory), as opposed to being held in secondary storage.

A) hardware
B) firmware
C) software
D) shareware

Question 46

____ are self-contained modules (units of software) that provide models of the real world and can be reused in different applications.

A) Objects
B) Kernels
C) Peripherals
D) Threads

Question 47

The most common mechanism for implementing multiprogramming was the introduction of the ____ concept, which is when the CPU is notified of events needing operating systems services.

A) paging
B) sharing
C) messaging
D) interrupt

Question 48

The name for the core part of an operating system is____.

A) manager
B) center
C) core
D) kernel

Question 49

____ is the partitioning of a single server, each of which can support a different operating system.

A) Multiprocessing
B) Multithreading
C) Virtualization
D) Shared processing

Question 50

A system with ____ divides programs into parts and keep them in secondary storage, bringing each part into memory only as it is needed.

A) virtual memory
B) shared memory
C) segmented processing
D) passive multiprogramming