COA_Ch08_Pretest

_____________ is a classification for software that provides services above the operating system layer and below the application program layer.

• Hardware
• Software
• Middleware
• Coreware

The _____________ is the core of the operating system.

• kernel
• kernet
• kern
• kernt

___________ allows multiple processes to run concurrently.

• Multiprogramming
• Multitasking
• Multiprocessing
• Multischeduling

_____________ gives the programmer direct access to the machine architecture assembly.

• Language
• Program
• Software
• Coding

__________ was the programming language best chosen for personal computer systems.

• BASIC
• Cobol
• Fortran
• Pascal

A ___________ is the smallest schedulable unit in a system.

• thread
• packet
• segment
• sector

The final output of most assemblers is a stream of ___________ binary instructions.

• locatable
• traceable
• relocatable
• reloadable

DLL means

• dynamic linked libraries
• dynamic link list
• dynamic link libraries
• direct link libraries

BASIC stands for

• Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• Beginners All-programming Symbolic Instruction Code
• Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Coding
• Basic All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

The communications management component of CICS controls interactions, called ______________ , between dumb terminals and a host system.

• conversations
• conversions
• connections
• conditions