...NAME: David Sauerbrei POS355 Week 5 Final Exam This is an open-book, open-notes exam. You may consult the textbook, lectures and PowerPoint slides, but no other source. This exam must be an individual effort. Each question is worth one-half point. The total point value of this exam is 20 points. Please post your completed exam in the Assignments area by 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 14. 1. The operating system serves as an intermediary between the user and the computer hardware. (True / False) ANSWER: True 2. The operating system serves as an intermediary between a process and the computer hardware. (True / False) ANSWER: False 3. This is the brain of a computer. a. smart card b. artificial intelligence c. logical address d. read-only memory e. central processing unit ANSWER: e 4. When a single user runs two copies of the same program concurrently (for example, two instances of NotePad), two processes are created. (True / False) ANSWER: True 5. The following operating systems were developed by Microsoft: a. Mac OS b. Linux c. Solaris d. all of the above e. b and c only f. none of the above ANSWER: f 6. A _______________ operating system supports a system that has rigid time requirements on the CPU and data flows. ANSWER: Real-time 7. Time-sharing requires the following. a. process scheduling b. process protection c. deadlock...
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