Recall Qs

Question 1

What does assembling source code mean?

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Question 2

What is an operating system?

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Question 3

What is source code?

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Question 4

What does ‘linking’ a file do?

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Question 5

What is a command? What two components is it usually comprised of?

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Argument, command name

Question 6

How are comments indicated in an assembly language program?

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Question 7

What is the difference between an assembly language, machine code, and high level programming languages?

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Question 8

What is an assembler directive? (AKA pseudo operator)

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Question 9

What does a symbol in assembly language mean?

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Question 10

What is UNIX?

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Question 11

What three components make up unix?

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Kernel, shell, programs

Question 12

What is a kernel?

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Question 13

What is a shell?

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A shell is a program that exposes an OS service to a human user/ other program

Question 14

What is batch processing?

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Question 15

What is the difference between virtual and physical memory? Why does it exist?

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Question 16

What manages the mapping between virtual and physical memory?

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OS + CPU

Question 17

What is a terminal?

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Question 18

Process vs file within UNIX

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Question 19

What is an exit status code?

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Question 20

What is the ISA?

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Question 21

How do load and store instructions differ?

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Question 22

What are functions in C code?

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Question 23

What is a format specifyer

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sequence of characters beginning with % renders the bits of the variable to be printed

Question 24

What is a header file in C? What does it contain?

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Question 25

What is a C preprocessor

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Question 26

What is the difference between stack and the heap?

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Question 27

What are the segments within RAM and how are they characterized?

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