Quiz #3

1.) Q: What are the major activities of the OS with regards to process management?

A: The major activities of the OS with regards to process management are the ff:

-process creation and deletion

-process suspension and resumption

-provision mechanisms for:

-process synchronization

-process communication

-deadlock handling

2.) Q: What are the major activities of the OS with regards to memory management?
A: The major activities of the OS with regards to memory management are the ff:

-keep track of which parts of the memory are currently being used and by whom

-decide which process to load when memory space is available

-allocate and deallocate memory space as needed

3.) Q: What are the major activities of the OS with regards to storage management?

A: The major activities of the OS with regards to storage management are the ff:

-free space management

-storage allocation

-disk scheduling

4.) Q: What are the major activities of the OS with regards to file management?
A: The major activities of the OS with regards to file management are the ff:

-file creation and deletion

-directory creation and deletion

-support of primative for manipulating files and directories

-mapping files onto secondary storage

-file backup on stable(non-volatile) storage media

5.) Q: What is the purpose of the command interpreter?

A: It serves as the interface between the OS and the user

-user friendly, mouse based windows envirorment in the Macintosh and Micrososft

OS

-in MS-DOS and UNIX commands are typed on the keyboard and displayed on screen

Many commands are given to the OS by control statements which deals with:

-process creation and management

-I/O handling

-secondary - storage management

-main - memory management

-file - system access

-protection

-networking

The progarms that reads interprets control statement is called:

-comand - line interpreter

-shell(UNIX)

Its function is to get and execute teh next command statement