Operating Systems 1st Week Quiz

The book recommended for the course is 'Operating Systems, 8th Edition' by William Stallings.

The grading for the course is based on Mid-term 40% and Final 60%.

The CPU is responsible for controlling the operation of the computer and performing data processing functions.

Main Memory is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the computer is shut down.

I/O Modules are responsible for moving data between the computer and external environments such as storage.

The course instructor's name is Asst.Prof. Samia Abdalhamid, and her email address is [email protected].

The program counter holds the address of the instruction to be fetched next, and it is incremented after each fetch. This statement is related to the _____________ stage of instruction execution.

The microprocessor giving way to the System on a Chip (SoC) is to satisfy the requirements of ____________ devices.

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are used for efficient computation on arrays of data using ______________ techniques.

Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) deal with streaming signals such as audio or video and are used for encoding/decoding speech and video with support for ______________.

Interrupts are provided to improve processor utilization because most I/O devices are slower than the processor, and the processor must pause to wait for the device. This statement highlights the ____________ of interrupts.

A timer-generated interrupt allows the operating system to perform certain functions on a regular basis. This type of interrupt is known as ____________.

An interrupt that occurs as a result of an instruction execution, such as arithmetic overflow or attempt to execute an illegal machine instruction, is classified as a ____________ interrupt.

The components on a System on a Chip (SoC) include DSPs, GPUs, codecs, main memory, CPUs, and caches, in addition to the ____________.