Operating Systems

Allocating time on the processor to individual processes is known as...

• CPU Scheduling
• CPU Timing
• CPU Clocking
• CPU Sorting

A process is a...

• program in execution
• program on the hard drive
• high level program
• low level program 

What is defragmentation?

• Rearranging files to occupy contiguous space.
• Speeding up processing.
• Rearranging the RAM.
• Rearranging processes queued for processing.

Which of the following is not a resource managed by the OS?

• CPU
• Cache
• Graphics Processor
• Data

When the OS creates temporary RAM on the Hard Drive it is known as...

• Virtual Memory
• Cache
• Registering
• Defragmenting

Which of the following is not systems software?

• Web Browser
• Anti Virus
• Firewall
• Zip Compression

Network OS track which user has done what, this is known as a...

• Audit Trail
• Monitoring App
• Cookie
• Spyware

A message sent by the OS to change the CPU schedule is known as...

• Interupt
• Poll
• Cache
• Defrag

Holding more than one process in the memory at any one time is known as multi-tasking or...

• Multi-programming
• Parallel Processing
• Timesharing
• Process Management

Keep track of where a program is in the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle is...  

• Process Management
• CPU Scheduling
• Process Scheduling
• CPU Management