CSCI 340 Exam with Questions and Answers

CSCI 340 Exam with Questions and Answers What is operating system? ANSWER A collection of programs that manages hardware resources, system service provider to the application programs, link to interface the hardware and application programs To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the ANSWER System Calls Which one of the following is not true? a) kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system b) kernel is the first part of operating system to load into memory during booting c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system d) kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session ANSWER c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating system Which one of the following error will be handle by the operating system? a) power failure b) lack of paper in printer c) connection failure in the network d) all of the mentioned ANSWER d) all of the mentioned The main function of the command interpreter is ANSWER to get and execute the next user-specified command