Keywords Quiz

A small program that is used to load other
programs to ‘start up’ a computer is called

• Operating System

• Bootstrap

• Control Panel

• Kernel

_____ is a function allowing a computer to process
more than one task/process at a time

• Multiprogramming

• Multitasking

• Device Driver

• Virtual Memory

____ is a program that has started to be executed.

• Operating system

• Program

• Software

• Application

A type of paging that gives the illusion
of unlimited memory being available is know as

• Disk thrashing

• Page replacement

• Virtual memory

• Page fault

The address space that an OS
perceives to be main storage is

• Physical Address

• Page Frame

• Page Table

• Logical Address

Fixed-size physical memory blocks is

• Page

• Frame

• Segment

• Physical Address

The core of an OS with control over process
management, memory management, interrupt
handling, device management and I/O operations is

• Kernel

• Process Scheduler

• Memory manager

• Processor

____ occurs when a new page is referred but is
not yet in memory.

• Paging

• Page Fault

• Disk Thrashing

• Segmentation

Software that communicates with the
operating system and translates data into a format
understood by the device is

• Utility Program

• Translator

• Application Software

• Device Driver

A utility that reorganises the
sectors on a hard disk so that files can be stored in
contiguous data blocks is called

• Disk Thrashing

• Device Driver

• Disk defragmenter

• Disk compression