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Duplicate of Operating Systems
Duplicate of Operating Systems
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This Quiz is used to prepare high school students for a test on operating systems
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This is the first step in the boot sequence.
FAT is read
WIN.INI
POST
Registry loads
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This is the ability of an operating system to run multiple applications at the same time?
multiuser
multiprocessing
multitasking
multithreading
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Operating system provide the interface for interaction between what three things?
hardware
users
applications
phones
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This loads only the basic files and drivers during OS boot.
Defrag
CHKDISK
Safemode
Dual Boot
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How does the OS detect and install drivers for PnP hardware?
Externally
It Downloads them
Through the HAL
Automatically
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What would be the result of having a corrupt Master Boot Record?
The operating system will fail to start.
The keyboard will be unresponsive to the user.
A new application will fail to install.
The printer will function incorrectly.
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A small program that instructs hardware called?
A system
An application
A driver
An executable
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Use this to scan for new software patches, and service packs.
Defrag
Disk Cleanup
Task Scheduler
Windows Update
