COP 4600 Final Terms Questions With
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In paging, physical memory is divided into a number of equal sized blocks. Each of
these is referred to as a _________. – ANSWER: Frame
The percentage of time that the desired information is found in the TLB - ANSWER:
Hit Ratio
A computer that is monitoring other computers that are actively executing
applications. If the executing machine fails, the hot standby host will take over. -
ANSWER: Hot Stand By Mode
A process that cannot affect or be affected by the execution of another process. -
ANSWER: Independent Process
How Cooperating processes communicate with each other. The two models are
Shared Memory and Message Passsing. - ANSWER: Interprocess Communication
Triggered by CPU Signal or System Call. Can be Asynchronous or Synchronous. -
ANSWER: Interrupt
Where higher security instructions are executed. - ANSWER: Kernel Mode
OS Design in which the operating system is divided into a number of levels, each built
on top of lower levels. - ANSWER: Layered Approach
Set of all CPU-generated addresses which have been generated by a program. -
ANSWER: Logical Address Space
Responsible for determining which processes should be brought into the ready
queue. - ANSWER: Long Term Scheduler
A model of Interprocess Communication in which cooperating processes have a
common space in memory. - ANSWER: Memory Sharing
A model of Interprocess Communication in which cooperating processes establish a
communication link using system calls. - ANSWER: Message Passing
OS Structure in which core kernel only has the essentials, however communication
occurs with other modules through message passing. - ANSWER: Microkernel
responsible for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses - ANSWER: MMU
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