Exam 15: Windows Operating Systems

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.

In Windows terminology, the privileged processor mode is called ____ mode and the nonprivileged processor mode is called user mode.

The Windows Task Manager is opened by pressing and holding the ____ keys.

The code that must access processor-dependent data structures and registers is contained in small ____ that can be replaced by similar code for different processors.

The ____ policy determines when the pager copies a page from disk to memory.

In processor management, the ____ is what actually executes the code.

The ____ attribute indicates whether to delete the file after closing it.

Multithreading is advantageous when doing database searches because data is retrieved faster when the system has several threads of execution that are searching an array simultaneously, especially if each thread has its own CPU.

In 1999, Microsoft changed the operating system's name from Windows NT to Windows 2000.

To start an application from the Windows desktop, users ____ on an application icon or select it from the Start menu.

LDAP is the hierarchical replicated naming service on which the Internet is built.

A thread is the entity within a process that the ____ schedules for execution.

For users who are faster with the keyboard than with a pointing device, Windows provides many keyboard shortcuts.

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."

A replacement policy determines which virtual page must be removed from memory to make room for a new page.

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

The ____ file system called can recover from all types of errors including those that occur in critical disk sectors.

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.

A(n) ____ is a data structure that controls how the I/O operation is processed at each step.

Active Directory groups machines into administrative units called ____.