SEMIFINAL EXAM ON OPERATING SYSTEM - CMP324

It includes the current activity, as represented by the value of the program counter and the contents of the processor's registers.

It includes the current activity represented by the value of the program counter.

The process is waiting to be assigned to a processor.

It consists of all processes in the system.

The processes that are residing in the main memory and are ready and waiting to execute are kept on a list called the _________.

The list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device.

It is special system software that handles process scheduling in various ways.

It selects processes from the queue and loads them into memory for execution.

Its main objective is to increase system performance in accordance with the chosen set of criteria. It is the change from the ready state to the running state of the process.

It removes the processes from the memory. It reduces the degree of multiprogramming.