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Software and Operating Systems Quiz
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Which type of software is the most expensive?
Generic Software
Specialist Software
Bespoke Software
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Which type of software is a good combination of tailored and less expensive?
Specialist Software
Bespoke Software
Generic Software
3
Which type of software will have all of the required functionality?
Specialist Software
Generic Software
Bespoke Software
4
What is the name for the core of an Operating System?
System Centre
Kernel
Device Drivers
System Utilities
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Which of these means that an OS canload the correct data into RAM?
Memory Management
Peripheral Management
Real time
User Management
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Which of these means that an OS can respond very quickly to changes in applications?
MultiTasking
Multi-user
Memory Management
Real time
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Which type of software will potentially have the most bugs?
Specialist Software
Bespoke Software
Generic Software
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What is system software?
None of the above.
Software to allow users/applications to access PC hardware.
Programs that command the system.
Software to create things like Word documents.
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Where are programs(software) stored when running?
ROM
Hard Drive
RAM
CPU
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Which type of software is the most tailored to a customer's needs?
Specialist Software
Bespoke Software
Generic Software
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Which of these means that an OS can appear to do more than one thing at a time?
User Management
Memory Management
MultiTasking
Real time
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What is a program?
Something that does something on a computer.
Lines of code.
A set of instructions.
A set of instructions that performs a task.
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Which type of software is the cheapest?
Specialist Software
Generic Software
Bespoke Software
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Which of these means that an OS can control who accesses certain files?
User Management
Memory Management
Multi-user
Peripheral Management
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Which type of software will have the most support?
Generic Software
Specialist Software
Bespoke Software
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Which of these describes that fact that an OS can support more than one user at a time.
Real time
Multi-user
Memory Management
MultiTasking
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Which of these means that an OS can manage hardware devices?
Peripheral Management
Real time
Multi-user
MultiTasking
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What is the name of a piece of software that tells communicates between the OS and hardware?
A device.
A device driver.
A system device
An Operating Driver
