operating systems - buffers & spooling

The process of continually refilling a buffer to transfer data between sender and receiver is known as

• spilling

• spooling

• batch processing

• buffer control

The spooling process usually makes use of these to notify the sender/receiver of an empty/full buffer.

• batch processing

• interrupts

• spooling

• buffers

A printer would raise an interrupt to the operating system

• ...when its buffer is full

• ...when its buffer is empty

A buffer is particularly useful between the sender and the receiver when...

• there is a difference in price between the sender and receiver

• security needs to be enforced on the transmission

• there is a difference in operational speed of the sender and receiver

• different user interfaces need to be implemented

What operating system function allows a word processor program to close down before the print job it actioned has completed on the printer.

• multi-tasking

• multi-programming

• spooling

• batch-processing

"Selecting ten files and dragging them all to a different folder" or "selecting ten files and choosing 'print all'" would both be good examples of

• batch processing

• multi-tasking

• memory management

• user account security

Complete the missing word:

Spooling is a system of continually refilling a ______ in order to transfer data from a sender to a receiver in batches.

Complete the two gaps:

Generating all of the printed bills for your clients, one after the other in sequence, would be an example of _____ __________

Which of these are not functions of an operating system?

• Memory management

• Processor management

• Peripheral management

• Web management

Which of these refers to the operating system's ability to suspend the context of one program in order to resume the execution of another.

• multi-processing

• multi-tasking

• multi-programming