operating system

Question 1

Operating system

Answer 1

Coordinates all operations of your computer.
Allows installed software installed on the computer to work

Gui: graphical user interfaces that allow users to interact with the digital device with a graphical icon

Question 2

Factors that can affect your operating system

Answer 2

Malware, hardware, virtual memory

Question 3

Roles of the operating system

Answer 3

Memory management-Decides what processes get memory, how its distributed, and when to take away memory

Security- antivirus and software to help protect your personal computer from threats
running ongoing checks for attacks on the system and gathering data to help with oncoming cyberattacks

Networking-Controls access to resources and devices on the network (backing up files, managing remote printing, user management)

Device drivers- manage peripheral devices by using a driver to link digital device with peripheral

Multitasking- Allowing the user to run more than one application on the operating system at a time (this is done when the operating system allocates resources to each app)

Question 4

Open source

Answer 4

Allows users to modify source code
Free to use, compatible with other proprietary utility software, support is provided by community
Support may be slow, could have indirect costs involved

Question 5

Open source

Answer 5

Allows users to modify source code
Free to use, compatible with other proprietary utility software, support is provided by community
Support may be slow, could have indirect costs involved

Question 6

Proprietary

Answer 6

Source code owned by a company
More support provided, has more features than open source
Costly, the company may give out slow bug fixes
lack of customisation due to copyright

Question 7

real time operating syst em

Answer 7

an operating system that processes data in real-time