Exam 9: Operating Systems

Which of the following kinds of operating systems allow only one user to run one program or app at a time?

A(n)____________________ is a small program that tells the operating system how to communicate with a specific device.

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

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

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are looking for a product developed by Microsoft to enable your organization to manage applications and websites either onsite or on the cloud. Which product will you use?

Which of the following is a set of programs containing instructions that coordinate all the activities among computer hardware resources?

Like other operating systems, Linux is proprietary software.

Some stand-alone operating systems are called ____________________ operating systems because they also work in conjunction with a server operating system.

Some of the file management functions that a(n)____________________ performs are displaying a list of files on a storage medium; organizing files in folders; copying, renaming, deleting, moving, and sorting files.

Which of the following kinds of drives is the drive from which a personal computer starts?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You are designing software that will allow users to interact with it through ordinary, intuitive behavior. Which of the following are you using?

A device-dependent program runs on computers provided by a variety of manufacturers.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You want to shrink the size of a file. What do you use?

Which of the following regularly provides new features or corrections to a program?

Which of the following is a multitasking operating system developed in the early 1970s by scientists at Bell Laboratories?

Among file and disk management tools, a(n)____________________ tool copies selected files or the contents of an entire storage medium to another storage location.

Which browser is included with the Mac OS?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the term for the area of the hard disk used for virtual memory?

____________________ consists of ROM chips or flash memory chips that store permanent instructions.