OS101 Quiz #1

This software provides a basis for application programs and acts as an intermediary between the computer user and the computer hardware

• Device Controller

• Operating System

• System Bus

• Command Prompt

A set of software frameworks that provide additional services to application developers.

• Kernel

• System Programs

• Middleware

• Device Driver

This is triggered when the device controller informs the device driver that it has finished an operation or there is an error.

• Error

• User program

• Cache

• Interrupt

Each device controller type has an operating system _____ to manage it.

• Interrupt

• Device Driver

• System bus

• RAM

The basic unit of computer storage

• Bit

• Byte

• KB

• MB

A byte has how many bits?

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

RAM or referred to as memory is _______, so it loses its contents when power is turned off.

• Firmware

• Volatile

• Nonvolatile

• Random-Access Memory

These type of Systems dominate the landscape of computing since it doesn't operate on a single-core chip, only.

• Single-Processor Systems

• Multiprocessor Systems

• Clustered Systems

• Mainframe

This is a physical chip that contains one or more CPUs.

• CPU

• Processor

• Core

• Multicore

The basic computation unit of CPU

• CPU

• Processor

• Core

• Bit