Exam 9: Operating Systems

Which of the following are shortcuts to an app or other content in Windows?

Quickly pressing the power button on a laptop may place the computer in sleep mode.

Chromebooks and Chromeboxes typically contain an SSD as their internal storage device.

What is the term for using a set of conditions to measure the performance of hardware in your network?

When a computer is running multiple programs, the applications running but not currently in use are in the foreground.

In the Mac OS GUI, the status bar contains icons used to run applications, display minimized windows, and access documents.

An operating system cannot run from an external drive.

What type of operating system allows two or more programs or apps to reside in memory at the same time?

What is the term for the process of swapping items between memory and storage?

The person overseeing network operations, called the network ____________________, uses the server operating system to add and remove users, computers, and other devices to and from a network.

Embedded computers and some mobile devices often use which of the following kinds of operating system?

A Disk ____________________ is a utility that reorganizes the files and unused space on a computer's hard disk so the operating system accesses data more quickly and programs run faster.

Which of the following kinds of software consists of the programs that control or maintain the operations of a computer and its devices?

Linux is a kind of software whose code is provided for use, modification, and redistribution. What kind of software is this?

In addition to managing applications, an operating system manages other processes.

Operating systems rarely provide a means to establish Internet connections.

You are using a technology to enable two devices to share contacts when they touch. What is the name for this technology?

Even if users are working on multiple programs simultaneously, it is impossible to run out of RAM.

Provide the steps in the start-up process.

In the Mac OS GUI, you can drag scrollers to display more window content.