COP4600 Final 2025/2026 Exam
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What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Registers, ALU,
and control unit
Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and
general purposed of these - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Registers
Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔ALU
Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other components - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Control unit
Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Fetch
,Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands of the
instruction and interpreting it - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Decode
Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Execute
Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Protected state
Legacy boot process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Binary Input Output System
The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bootloader
What does bootstrap mean? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Loading up the computer
Why are the bootsector and bootloader separate? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Bootsector is too small
Where is the BIOS init stored? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The motherboard
What boot process is usable on x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔BIOS
,What boot process has standard for ARM chipset systems? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Neither
Which boot process has standardized NVRAM locations for system
variables? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
Which boot process uses a dedicated bootloader partition? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔BIOS
Which boot process is usable on x86-64 (x64) standalone PCs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Both
Newer boot process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
Which boot process simplifies diskless systems? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
What are the functions of an OS? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Loading programs onto
machine, controlling I/O devices, managing resources (memory, CPU),
multi-tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and task interaction
(pipes, networking)
Mode for directly manipulating hardware - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Kernel mode
T/F: No device is directly accessed without the kernel - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
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, T/F: Only system libraries can invoke system calls - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
T/F: The system call invokes code written by system developers, while a
procedure call invokes code written by an application programmer - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False
A running program is in ______ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Execution
When we run a program, we create a _________ for it - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Process
Features of a process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Has some address space,
associated with specific resources, computational element/object, and has
one or more threads of execution
When we make a _______, we add a stack frame to the call stack - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Procedure call
Which pointer points to the beginning of the stack frame? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Frame pointer
Which pointer points to the beginning of the call stack? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Stack pointer
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What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Registers, ALU,
and control unit
Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and
general purposed of these - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Registers
Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔ALU
Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other components - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Control unit
Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Fetch
,Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands of the
instruction and interpreting it - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Decode
Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Execute
Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Protected state
Legacy boot process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Binary Input Output System
The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bootloader
What does bootstrap mean? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Loading up the computer
Why are the bootsector and bootloader separate? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Bootsector is too small
Where is the BIOS init stored? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The motherboard
What boot process is usable on x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔BIOS
,What boot process has standard for ARM chipset systems? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Neither
Which boot process has standardized NVRAM locations for system
variables? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
Which boot process uses a dedicated bootloader partition? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔BIOS
Which boot process is usable on x86-64 (x64) standalone PCs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Both
Newer boot process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
Which boot process simplifies diskless systems? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔UEFI
What are the functions of an OS? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Loading programs onto
machine, controlling I/O devices, managing resources (memory, CPU),
multi-tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and task interaction
(pipes, networking)
Mode for directly manipulating hardware - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Kernel mode
T/F: No device is directly accessed without the kernel - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
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, T/F: Only system libraries can invoke system calls - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
T/F: The system call invokes code written by system developers, while a
procedure call invokes code written by an application programmer - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔False
A running program is in ______ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Execution
When we run a program, we create a _________ for it - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Process
Features of a process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Has some address space,
associated with specific resources, computational element/object, and has
one or more threads of execution
When we make a _______, we add a stack frame to the call stack - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Procedure call
Which pointer points to the beginning of the stack frame? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Frame pointer
Which pointer points to the beginning of the call stack? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Stack pointer
