Exam 14: Windows Operating Systems

____ provide a high-level interface for passing data between two processes regardless of their locations.

A replacement paging policy determines which virtual page must be removed from memory to make room for a new page.

An ____ is a data structure that controls how the I/O operation is processed at each step.

LDAP is the hierarchical replicated naming service on which the Internet is built.

Multithreading improves database searches because data is retrieved faster when the system has several threads of execution searching an array simultaneously,especially if each thread has its own CPU.

The Windows Task Manager can be opened by pressing and holding the ____ keys together.

Much of Windows is written in assembly language,a programming language that's standardized and readily available.

Which of the following Windows operating systems integrates cloud environments and distributed access?

In Windows terminology,the privileged processor mode is called ____ mode and the nonprivileged processor mode is called user mode.

In recent Windows operating systems,almost all low-level I/O operations are asynchronous.

Microsoft has recently introduced an optional file system,called a Resilient File System,for handling files with very large data sets.

Recent Windows operating systems provide distributed security with Kerberos,which provides authentication,data integrity,and data privacy.

Windows XP was the last Windows operating system built on the Windows 95 kernel.

The ____ file system can recover from all types of errors including those that occur in critical disk sectors.

The ____ paging policy determines when the pager copies a page from disk to memory.

____ files exploit virtual memory capabilities by allowing an application to open a file of arbitrary size and treat it as a single contiguous array of memory locations without buffering data or performing disk I/O.

The portion of memory that is used for sections of the kernel that require maximum performance is the ____.

The ____ attribute indicates whether to delete a file after closing it.

Effective distributed security requires an authentication mechanism that allows a server to prove its identity to a client.

The file disposition attribute ____.