system software

Question 1

name the different types of interfaces

Answer 1

Graphical, command line, menu driven, natural language

Question 2

what is multitasking

Answer 2

when you have more than one program running at the same time

Question 3

what is memory management

Answer 3

it is the operating system that handles loading programs from the hard drive into the main memory (RAM)

Question 4

what is a device driver

Answer 4

it translates the operating system instructions to print the document into a series of instructions which a specific piece of hardware will understand

Question 5

what is user management

Answer 5

it is the operating system that does things like logins and it stores things like passwords and usernames

Question 6

what is file management

Answer 6

it is the operating system that does filenames so the file is loaded into the right application. the operating system may present a logical structure of files into folders and allow the user to rename, delete, copy and move files

Question 7

what is the utility system software: Encryption

Answer 7

it uses an algorithm to scramble plain text into cipher text

Question 8

what is the utility system software: defragmentation

Answer 8

it reorganizes files on a hard drive disk to increase the space usable