module 5 day 1

Question 1

What allow us to run programs?

Answer 1

processes

Question 2

what are applications we can run, like a web browser?

Answer 2

Programs

Question 3

what are programs that are running?

Answer 3

Processes

Question 4

How can we calculate the information our software contains?

Answer 4

Give it resources so that it can be run.

Question 5

what do processes take up?

Answer 5

hardware resources. cpu, ram

Question 6

what is a process given when it is launched to identify it from other processes?

Answer 6

process ID

Question 7

When your computer runs a program, what decides what resources to give the program?

Answer 7

the kernel

Question 8

What are background processes also known as?

Answer 8

Daemon processes

Question 9

what processes do we not normally see or interact with, but our system needs to function?

Answer 9

background, daemon processes

Question 10

what are things like,
scheduling resources,
logging,
managing networks, etc,
examples of?

Answer 10

background processes

Question 11

when windows boots up, what is the first non-kernel user mode?

Answer 11

the session manager subsystem, or smss.exe

Question 12

what process facilitates setting stuff up for the OS to work right after boot up.

Answer 12

smss.exe

Question 13

what is the login process when Windows boots up? the process being… like program sort of process.

Answer 13

winlogon.exe

Question 14

what is the client server runtime subsystem, or csrss.exe?

Answer 14

a process that handles running the Windows GUI and command line console

Question 15

what process does Linux use as the first process?

Answer 15

init

Question 16

what does each new process created in Windows need a parent to do?

Answer 16

to tell the OS that a new process needs to be made.

Question 17

what is the environment of a process?

Answer 17

settings and variables inherited by a child process from its parent

Question 18

on what operating system can child processes operate independently of their parents?

Answer 18

Windows

Question 19

how do you create a new process from the command line? for notepad, on PowerShell

Answer 19

notepad.exe

Question 20

if you open notepad.exe from PowerShell, what is the parent process and the child process?

Answer 20

PowerShell is the parent process. notepad is the child.

Question 21

in Windows, what happens if you kill the parent process of a child process/

Answer 21

nothing. the child process continues unphased.