COP4600 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
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What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Registers,
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ALU, and control unit
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Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and
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general purposed of these - ANSWER✔✔✔-Registers
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Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-ALU
Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other components -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Control unit |
Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Fetch
Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands of the
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instruction and interpreting it - ANSWER✔✔✔-Decode
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,Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Execute
Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Protected state |
Legacy boot process - ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
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What does BIOS stand for? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Binary Input Output System
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The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - ANSWER✔✔✔-Bootloader
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What does bootstrap mean? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Loading up the computer
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Why are the bootsector and bootloader separate? - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Bootsector is too small | | |
Where is the BIOS init stored? - ANSWER✔✔✔-The motherboard
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What boot process is usable on x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
,What boot process has standard for ARM chipset systems? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Neither
Which boot process has standardized NVRAM locations for system
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variables? - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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Which boot process uses a dedicated bootloader partition? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
Which boot process is usable on x86-64 (x64) standalone PCs? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Both
Newer boot process - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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Which boot process simplifies diskless systems? - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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What are the functions of an OS? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Loading programs
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onto machine, controlling I/O devices, managing resources (memory,
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CPU), multi-tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and task
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interaction (pipes, networking)
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Mode for directly manipulating hardware - ANSWER✔✔✔-Kernel mode
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, T/F: No device is directly accessed without the kernel - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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True
T/F: Only system libraries can invoke system calls - ANSWER✔✔✔-False
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T/F: The system call invokes code written by system developers, while a
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procedure call invokes code written by an application programmer -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-False
A running program is in ______ - ANSWER✔✔✔-Execution
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When we run a program, we create a _________ for it - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Process
Features of a process - ANSWER✔✔✔-Has some address space,
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associated with specific resources, computational element/object, and
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has one or more threads of execution
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When we make a _______, we add a stack frame to the call stack -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Procedure call |
Which pointer points to the beginning of the stack frame? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Frame pointer |
Answers
What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Registers,
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ALU, and control unit
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Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and
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general purposed of these - ANSWER✔✔✔-Registers
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Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-ALU
Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other components -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Control unit |
Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Fetch
Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands of the
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instruction and interpreting it - ANSWER✔✔✔-Decode
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,Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Execute
Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Protected state |
Legacy boot process - ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
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What does BIOS stand for? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Binary Input Output System
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The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - ANSWER✔✔✔-Bootloader
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What does bootstrap mean? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Loading up the computer
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Why are the bootsector and bootloader separate? - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Bootsector is too small | | |
Where is the BIOS init stored? - ANSWER✔✔✔-The motherboard
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What boot process is usable on x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
,What boot process has standard for ARM chipset systems? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Neither
Which boot process has standardized NVRAM locations for system
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variables? - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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Which boot process uses a dedicated bootloader partition? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-BIOS
Which boot process is usable on x86-64 (x64) standalone PCs? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Both
Newer boot process - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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Which boot process simplifies diskless systems? - ANSWER✔✔✔-UEFI
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What are the functions of an OS? - ANSWER✔✔✔-Loading programs
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onto machine, controlling I/O devices, managing resources (memory,
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CPU), multi-tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and task
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interaction (pipes, networking)
| |
Mode for directly manipulating hardware - ANSWER✔✔✔-Kernel mode
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, T/F: No device is directly accessed without the kernel - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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True
T/F: Only system libraries can invoke system calls - ANSWER✔✔✔-False
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T/F: The system call invokes code written by system developers, while a
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procedure call invokes code written by an application programmer -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-False
A running program is in ______ - ANSWER✔✔✔-Execution
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When we run a program, we create a _________ for it - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Process
Features of a process - ANSWER✔✔✔-Has some address space,
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associated with specific resources, computational element/object, and
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has one or more threads of execution
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When we make a _______, we add a stack frame to the call stack -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Procedure call |
Which pointer points to the beginning of the stack frame? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Frame pointer |
