Exam 14: Windows Operating Systems

The lower half of the virtual address space is accessible only to kernel-mode processes.

When opening a file in Windows,the creation of ____ helps bridge the gap between the characteristics of physical devices and directory and file system structures by providing a memory-based representation of shareable physical resources.

The Open Mode attribute for a file indicates whether other callers can open the file for read,write,or delete operations while this caller is using it.

A driver object can only have one device connected to it.

One disadvantage of Windows is that it does not provide much support for users working in non-English languages.

In a Windows device driver,the ____ is used by the I/O Manager to communicate with the driver when it generates an IRP after an I/O request.

Before the 1995 release of the Windows 95 operating system,all Windows products were merely graphical user interfaces that required the MS-DOS operating system to perform tasks.

Typing MD from the Command Prompt screen will ____.

One of the biggest concerns about Windows operating systems is the need for aggressive patch management to combat the many viruses and worms that target these systems.

To accommodate the various needs of its user community,and to optimize resources,the Windows team identified the following design goals:____.

Active Directory groups machines into administrative units called ____.

The ____ creates a driver object when a driver is loaded into the system and then calls the driver's initialization routine.

The I/O Manager allows device drivers and file systems,which it perceives as device drivers,to be loaded dynamically based on the needs of the user.

The primary file handling concept in recent versions of Windows is the virtual file.

To ensure the integrity of the Windows operating system code,the designers separated operating system functions into a privileged executive process and a set of nonprivileged processes called protected subsystems.

When physical memory becomes full,the ____ Memory Manager pages some of the memory contents to disk,freeing physical memory for other processes.

At the operating system level,file mapping is typically used for file caching,loading,and running executable programs.

Windows is a non-preemptive multitasking,multithreaded operating system.

The primary programming interface for Windows is ____.

By default,a Windows process contains one thread with four components: a unique identifier,the contents of a volatile set of registers indicating state,two stacks used in the thread's execution,and a private storage area used by subsystems and libraries.These components are called the thread's ____.