Process Management Quiz

An 'interrupt' may BEST be described as a

• period in time when the CPU does nothingh

• signal sent to the CPU for attention

• time when a process is blocked

• signal sent when a process is complete

If the interrupt is raised by a program rather than a piece of hardware it is known as a

• device driver interrupt

• operating system interrupt

• peripheral interrupt

• software interrupt

Which of these scenarios might result in printer raising an interrupt (select all that apply)

• Paper Jammed

• Sudden power cut

• Empty Paper tray

• Printer buffer empty

Which is NOT a resource the OS manages?

• Processor

• Memory

• Input/Output

• Topology

List 2 purposes of scheduling algorithms other than the main purposes

What are preemptive scheduling algorithms?

The address of the next instruction to be executed for the current process is stored in

• CPU registers

• Program counter

• Process state

• Process number

Process Control Block contains

• List of open files

• Process State

• Process Number

• All of the above

What is Process Management?

• It refers to the set of activities and techniques involved in controlling and coordinating the execution of processes in an operating system

• A structured approach to improving the processes I.T organizations use to get work done, serve their users and generate software value

• It refers to a set of computer science activities dedicated to the process of creating, designing, deploying, and supporting software

• All of the above

True or False?

The blocked and the paused states are not the same.

• True

• False