ITE 221 EXAM 4 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION!!
T/F
Operating Systems are organized internally into layers. Answer - True
T/F
Resource allocation in a single-tasking OS involves only two running programs
—an application and the OS. Answer - True
T/F
Multitasking operating systems are not the norm for general-purpose
computers. Answer - False
T/F
A hypervisor can make the sum of physical resources allocated to all virtual
machines appear greater than the underlying physical resources. Answer -
True
T/F
, The act of giving control of a CPU to a ready thread is called engaging. Answer
- False
T/F
A blocked thread is waiting for an event to occur, such as allocation of a
requested resource or correction of an error condition. Answer - True
T/F
In explicit priority scheduling, the scheduler always dispatches the ready thread
that has been waiting the longest. Answer - False
T/F
In Windows thread scheduling, a thread's current priority level is called its
"local priority." Answer - False
T/F
Data values and instructions generally occupy multiple bytes of storage.
Answer - True
T/F
When considered as a byte sequence, the rightmost byte is called the most
significant byte. Answer - False
COMPLETE SOLUTION!!
T/F
Operating Systems are organized internally into layers. Answer - True
T/F
Resource allocation in a single-tasking OS involves only two running programs
—an application and the OS. Answer - True
T/F
Multitasking operating systems are not the norm for general-purpose
computers. Answer - False
T/F
A hypervisor can make the sum of physical resources allocated to all virtual
machines appear greater than the underlying physical resources. Answer -
True
T/F
, The act of giving control of a CPU to a ready thread is called engaging. Answer
- False
T/F
A blocked thread is waiting for an event to occur, such as allocation of a
requested resource or correction of an error condition. Answer - True
T/F
In explicit priority scheduling, the scheduler always dispatches the ready thread
that has been waiting the longest. Answer - False
T/F
In Windows thread scheduling, a thread's current priority level is called its
"local priority." Answer - False
T/F
Data values and instructions generally occupy multiple bytes of storage.
Answer - True
T/F
When considered as a byte sequence, the rightmost byte is called the most
significant byte. Answer - False
