Exam 3: System Software

One type of icon you can add to the desktop is a ____ icon, which is indicated by a small arrow next to an icon that illustrates the application or program.

Developed by Apple, ___ runs only on Apple mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad.

Before you can interact with the OS, the computer must complete the spooling process. _________________________

Select ____ windows to arrange the windows so they overlap while displaying each title bar.

In Windows, you can hold press and hold the CTRL key while you press TAB to cycle through thumbnails of the open windows.

____ is called a multipurpose OS because it can run on a desktop PC or a server.

As the OS runs out of RAM for programs, it swaps data from RAM to the virtual memory area of the hard drive, which is also called the ____ file.

If too many programs are open for the memory to handle, the OS displays a message and closes the currently open programs.

Linux is available in versions called ____, including commercial options such as RedHat, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

____ is a PC operating system related to UNIX, an OS first developed in the 1960s for large, special-purpose computers used by scientists and researchers.

You type commands to interact with a ____ interface, which displays only text.

Motor vehicles and electronic devices, such as card readers and medical equipment, use ____ operating systems.

Besides saving files on your hard drive or a flash drive attached to your computer, you can save them in the ____, which is a storage location on a server.

To display a toolbar of buttons appropriate for your current task in a Windows 8-style app, ____ a blank area of the screen.

Using virtual memory means that the OS can access more memory than is physically available on your computer, and can do so faster than just using RAM.

To completely identify an operating system, you state its name and version.

Most operating systems use ____ to perform many tasks simultaneously.

The OS is loaded into memory during the ____ process.

If you want to copy or move more than one file from one location to another, you must first select the files.

A(n) ____ operating system is a multiuser OS because it controls a single, centralized computer that supports many users on networked computers.