Exam 6: An Introduction to System Software and Virtual Machines

Symbolic labels increase the maintainability of a program.

System software acts as a(n) ____ between the users and the hardware.

A(n) ____ operation involves the comparison of values and the subsequent use of the outcome to decide what to do next.

A(n) ____ invokes a service of the assembler.

Interaction with a text-oriented operating system requires the use of a command language.

It is the operating system's responsibility to safeguard the password file that stores all valid user name/password combinations.

Machine language is also known as the low-level programming language.

Assemblers, compilers, and interpreters are all examples of language services.

In a time-sharing system, a program can keep the processor until it initiates an I/O operation and has run for a the maximum length of time.

A single high-level language instruction is typically translated into many machine language instructions.

In assembly language, a(n) ____ is a name, followed by a colon, placed at the beginning of an instruction that becomes a permanent identification for that instruction.

Assembly language does not allow the use of symbolic operation codes.

For a program to run on a naked machine, it must be represented in binary.

A machine language program is called a(n) ____ program.

In a multiprogramming environment, the only event other than termination that causes a program to be suspended is the execution of a slow I/O operation.

The ____ includes the conversion of the LOAD, ADD, and SUBTRACT operations, among others.

A program written in assembly language is called a(n) ____ program.

On Windows machines the object program is referred to as a .EXE file.

A computer placed inside another piece of equipment is known as an embedded system.

One of the problems with machine language is that it uses binary.