7.4

Question 1

What is the kernel process?

Answer 1

Ntoskrnl.exe

Question 2

What is a kernel-loadable module that operates between the hardware and the executive so that applications and device drivers don’t have to be aware of hardware-specific information?

Answer 2

HAL.DLL

Question 3

What is the lower layer of ntoskrnl.exe and provides fundamental mechanisms used by the Executive components, as well as low-level hardware architecture support?

Answer 3

kernel

Question 4

What are the four main responsibilities of the kernel?

Answer 4

• Thread Scheduling
• Interrupt and Exception Handling
• Low-Level Processor Synchronization
• Power Failure Recovery

Question 5

What is the upper layer of ntoskrnl.exe and is the Windows system call handler that verifies and provides kernel services?

Answer 5

Executive

Question 6

What are seven components of the Windows Executive?

Answer 6

• Object Manager
• Security Reference Monitor
• Process Manager
• Virtual Memory Manager
• I/O Manager
• Asynchronous Local Inter-Process Communication
• Configuration Manager