Platform Technologies Quiz 1

Any base of technologies on which other technologies or processes are built.

• Hardware

• Software

• Platform

• Network

It is an activity of some kind.

• Process

• Program

• Thread

• Job

What do you call when there is a rapid switching of processes back and forth?

• Multiprocessing

• Multithreading

• Multiprogramming

• Multiswitching

The most important program that runs on your computer.

• Firewall

• Media Player

• Task Manager

• Operating System

Something that may be stored on a disk, not doing anything.

• Process

• Thread

• Program

• Job

The brain of the computer that executes instructions and controls operations.

• Central Processing Unit

• Central Processor Unit

• Central Process Unit

• Center Processing Unit

They share the same memory space and system resources as the parent process, but each of them has its own program counter, stack, and set of registers.

• Process

• Job

• Task

• Thread

No process running outside its critical region may block other processes.

• Progress

• No Starvation

• Mutual Exclusion

• No Assumption

It is a state where a process is unable to run until some external event happens.

• Running

• Creation

• Ready

• Blocked

It is a state where a process is currently using the CPU.

• Ready

• Blocked

• Running

• Creation