Quiz #3

What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to process management?

• Process creation and deletion
• Process suspension and resumption
• Prevision of mechanism for:
• process synchronization
• process communication
• deadlock handling

What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to memory management?

• Keep track of which parts of memory rae currently being used by whom
• Decide which processes to load when memory space become available
• Allocate and Deallocate memory space as needed

What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to secondary storage management

• Free Space Management
• Storage Allocation
• Disk Scheduling

What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to file management?

• File creation and deletion
• Directory creation and deletion
• Support of primitives for manipulating files and directories
• Mapping files onto secondary storage
• File backup on the stable(nonvolatile storage)

What is the purpose of the command interpreter?

• It serves as the interface between the user and the Operating System.
• User friendly, mouse based windows environment in the Macintosh and Microsoft windows.
• In MS-DOS and UNIX, command are typed on a keyboard and displayed on a screen or printing terminal with the Enter or Return key indicating that a command is complete and ready to be executed.