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What is the core of the operating system?
What is the core of the operating system?
- The user interface that provides a pleasant and effective interaction with the computer
- The set of programs that controls a computer
- The hardware components of the computer
- The kernel, a control program that functions in privileged state reacting to interrupts from external devices and to service requests and traps from processes (correct)
What is the main function of the kernel in an operating system?
What is the main function of the kernel in an operating system?
- Providing a pleasant and effective user interface
- Creating and terminating processes and responding to their request for service (correct)
- Managing resources and allocating them to processes
- Hiding details of hardware by creating abstraction
What is the primary role of an operating system?
What is the primary role of an operating system?
- To provide a pleasant and effective user interface
- To allocate resources to processes and manage them (correct)
- To hide details of hardware by creating abstraction
- To control the hardware directly
Which of the following is considered a resource manager in an operating system?
Which of the following is considered a resource manager in an operating system?
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What was the 1960's definition of an Operating System?
What was the 1960's definition of an Operating System?
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