Deck 14: Windows Operating Systems

Question 1

One of the biggest concerns about Windows operating systems is the need for aggressive patch management to combat the many viruses and worms that target these systems.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Effective distributed security requires an authentication mechanism that allows a server to prove its identity to a client.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Windows XP was the last Windows operating system built on the Windows 95 kernel.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One disadvantage of Windows is that it does not provide much support for users working in non-English languages.

Question 5

A driver object can only have one device connected to it.

Question 6

Before the 1995 release of the Windows 95 operating system,all Windows products were merely graphical user interfaces that required the MS-DOS operating system to perform tasks.

Question 7

Much of Windows is written in assembly language,a programming language that's standardized and readily available.

Question 8

Multithreading improves database searches because data is retrieved faster when the system has several threads of execution searching an array simultaneously,especially if each thread has its own CPU.

Question 9

The lower half of the virtual address space is accessible only to kernel-mode processes.

Question 10

The Open Mode attribute for a file indicates whether other callers can open the file for read,write,or delete operations while this caller is using it.

Question 11

In recent Windows operating systems,almost all low-level I/O operations are asynchronous.

Question 12

At the operating system level,file mapping is typically used for file caching,loading,and running executable programs.

Question 13

Windows is a non-preemptive multitasking,multithreaded operating system.

Question 14

To ensure the integrity of the Windows operating system code,the designers separated operating system functions into a privileged executive process and a set of nonprivileged processes called protected subsystems.

Question 15

The primary file handling concept in recent versions of Windows is the virtual file.

Question 16

Recent Windows operating systems provide distributed security with Kerberos,which provides authentication,data integrity,and data privacy.

Question 17

A replacement paging policy determines which virtual page must be removed from memory to make room for a new page.

Question 18

The SMB protocol is a high-level specification for formatting messages to be sent across the network and correlates to the application layer (layer 7),and the presentation layer (layer 6)of the OSI model.

Question 19

LDAP is the hierarchical replicated naming service on which the Internet is built.

Question 20

The I/O Manager allows device drivers and file systems,which it perceives as device drivers,to be loaded dynamically based on the needs of the user.

Question 21

By default,a Windows process contains one thread with four components: a unique identifier,the contents of a volatile set of registers indicating state,two stacks used in the thread's execution,and a private storage area used by subsystems and libraries.These components are called the thread's ____.

A) context
B) heap
C) global state
D) environment

Question 22

In a Windows device driver,the ____ is used by the I/O Manager to communicate with the driver when it generates an IRP after an I/O request.

A) initialization routine
B) dispatch routine
C) start I/O routine
D) unload routine

Question 23

The portion of memory that is used for sections of the kernel that require maximum performance is the ____.

A) resident operating system code
B) system nonpaged pool
C) system paged pool
D) paged user code and data pool

Question 24

When opening a file in Windows,the creation of ____ helps bridge the gap between the characteristics of physical devices and directory and file system structures by providing a memory-based representation of shareable physical resources.

A) resource objects
B) file objects
C) file pointers
D) reference pointers

Question 25

When physical memory becomes full,the ____ Memory Manager pages some of the memory contents to disk,freeing physical memory for other processes.

A) Application
B) Virtual
C) Backup
D) Physical

Question 26

To accommodate the various needs of its user community,and to optimize resources,the Windows team identified the following design goals:____.

A) extensibility, portability, reliability, compatibility, and performance
B) security, portability, reliability, and performance
C) security, expandability, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness
D) portability, interoperability, and performance

Question 27

The Windows Task Manager can be opened by pressing and holding the ____ keys together.

A) Ctrl, W, and T
B) Ctrl, Alt, and Esc
C) Ctrl, Alt, and Delete
D) Alt and Tab

Question 28

Active Directory groups machines into administrative units called ____.

A) domains
B) sites
C) networks
D) nodes

Question 29

When processing a typical remote I/O request,which of the following happens first?

A) Transport drivers process the request and place it on the network.
B) An I/O request packet is sent to the redirector.
C) User-mode software issues a remote I/O request.
D) The I/O Manager creates an I/O request packet.

Question 30

The ____ paging policy determines when the pager copies a page from disk to memory.

A) placement
B) replacement
C) fetch
D) paging

Question 31

An API called ____ is used to pass I/O requests structured in the SMB format to a remote computer.

A) MS-SMB
B) SMBAPI
C) NetAPI
D) NetBIOS

Question 32

The ____ attribute indicates whether to delete a file after closing it.

A) delete
B) file close
C) disposal mode
D) file disposition

Question 33

An ____ is a data structure that controls how the I/O operation is processed at each step.

A) ITB
B) IMS
C) IRP
D) IRQ

Question 34

Which of the following Windows operating systems integrates cloud environments and distributed access?

A) Windows XP
B) Windows 7
C) Windows 8
D) Windows Server 2012

Question 35

____ provide a high-level interface for passing data between two processes regardless of their locations.

A) Sink caches
B) Named pipes
C) Memory-mapped I/O
D) Mailslots

Question 36

____ files exploit virtual memory capabilities by allowing an application to open a file of arbitrary size and treat it as a single contiguous array of memory locations without buffering data or performing disk I/O.

A) Memory-mapped
B) Virtual memory
C) Virtual system
D) Cached

Question 37

The ____ creates a driver object when a driver is loaded into the system and then calls the driver's initialization routine.

A) Driver Manager
B) Driver Routine
C) I/O Manager
D) I/O Routine

Question 38

The primary programming interface for Windows is ____.

A) Win32 API
B) MS-DOS
C) POSIX
D) CDFS

Question 39

In Windows terminology,the privileged processor mode is called ____ mode and the nonprivileged processor mode is called user mode.

A) server
B) kernel
C) internal
D) computer

Question 40

The ____ file system can recover from all types of errors including those that occur in critical disk sectors.

A) FAT
B) NTFS
C) CDFS
D) NFST