G11 System Software

Question 1

Boot Loader

Answer 1

Program that houses the boot sequence

Question 2

Boot sequence

Answer 2

Set of operations the computer does before powering on

Question 3

Basic Input-Output System

Answer 3

Contains POST and loads the OS

Question 4

Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor

Answer 4

Takes inventory of the type of hardware used

Question 5

Master Boot Record

Answer 5

Executing the operating system kernel

Question 6

Kernel

Answer 6

Responsible for input/output from software

Question 7

CMOS

Answer 7

Obtain data about the system

Question 8

Unified Extended Firmware Interface

Answer 8

Faster than the UEFI

Question 9

Interrupts

Answer 9

Signal sent to the CPU to switch process

Question 10

Interrupt Request Number

Answer 10

Used for CPU to identify the device interrupting

Question 11

IO Range

Answer 11

Buffer from RAM to speed up slow I/O device

Question 12

Multitasking

Answer 12

Switching between programs at the same time

Question 13

Multithreading

Answer 13

More than one task in a program is being carried out

Question 14

Virtual Memory

Answer 14

Full RAM using some memory from the hard disk

Question 15

Translators

Answer 15

Software that translates one type of code to other type of code

Question 16

High-level languages

Answer 16

Code that is closer to human language

Question 17

Low-level language

Answer 17

Code that closer to machine language

Question 18

Interpreters

Answer 18

Converts each program line to machine code then executes it