COP4600 Operating Systems Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
what are the components that make up a von neumann
machine? - Correct Answer ✅•Stored Programs
•CPU with Control Unit
and Arithmetic/Logic Unit
•Memory
•Input and Output
Architectural Variants (different types of systems) - Correct
Answer ✅-Single-Processor Systems (1.3.1)
-Multiprocessor Systems (1.3.2)
-Clustered systems (1.3.3)
Virtual computers: Emulation - Correct Answer ✅running
code for another kind of
computer
Virtual computers: Interpretation - Correct Answer
✅running code for a theoretical
computer
,COP4600 Operating Systems Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
Virtual computers:: virtualization - Correct Answer
✅running a computer on a
computer
what are the steps in Starting the Computer - Correct
Answer ✅-"boot" program is run to load the kernel
-The kernel then does everything else - including loading and
starting other programs
-Programs then become processes and execute from (and
only from) main memory
Modern systems are
organized around _________ - Correct Answer ✅interrupts
,COP4600 Operating Systems Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
what is an interrupt? - Correct Answer ✅stop execution of
the running program and transfer control to an interrupt
handler
what does the interrupt handler do when it finishes
execution? - Correct Answer ✅(usually) returns control to
the program that was running
what two types of interrupt events can be generated by the
computer itself? - Correct Answer ✅• Hardware events
• Timer events
can a program issue an interrupt? - Correct Answer ✅yes,
by requesting for system services
for the most part, everything the
operating system does is
in response to a ___________. - Correct Answer ✅interrupt
, COP4600 Operating Systems Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024)
Multiprogramming - Correct Answer ✅scheduling more
than one program at
once
Multitasking - Correct Answer ✅(Interactive Time-Sharing)
is
multiprogramming with switches frequent enough that users
can interact with running programs
multitasking requires what type of operating system? -
Correct Answer ✅time-shared operating system
Programs have to be
in ____________ to run - Correct Answer ✅main memory
what in a computer system is Input/output? - Correct
Answer ✅Everything except the CPU and main memory
how do CPUs perform I/O? - Correct Answer ✅via
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