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Flashcards by Syabil Hafizdini, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Syabil Hafizdini
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the functions of an OS? | - An operating system (OS) controls the Processor management, Memory management, Storage management, and Device management of a system. - Provides a consistent and simplified platform for application development and execution. - Provide an interface for human-computer interaction. - Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and ETC. |
| Conversion table of Digital Storage | |
| What are the functions of an OS? | - An operating system (OS) controls the Processor management, Memory management, Storage management, and Device management of a system. - Provides a consistent and simplified platform for application development and execution. - Provide an interface for human-computer interaction. - Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and ETC. |
| What are the major functions of a computer system? | - Input, output, process and store. |
| What are the major functions of a computer system? | - Input, output, process and store. |
| What language does the computer understand? | - Binary language. |
| Language used by digital computer? | - Binary language. |
| What are the digits in binary language? | - 0's and 1's. |
| How many bits (binary digits) are in a byte? | - There are 8 bits in one byte. |
| How many bits (binary digits) are in a byte? | - There are 8 bits in one byte. |
| What is a Hardware? | - It is the physical, material part of a computer or a system that is connected to the computer. - E.G Motherboard, mouse & keyboard, speaker, and ETC. |
| What is an Operating System? | - A low-level software that handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedule tasks, allocate storage and presents a common interface to the user. - E.G Windows 10, Mac OS and ETC. |
| What is an Application? | - A complete, self-contained program that performs a specific function directly for the user. - E.G League of Legends, Google Chrome and ETC. |
| What is a User? | - Any person, organization, process, device, program, protocol or system which uses a service provided by others. - E.G Humans. |
| What are the two types of user-interfaces which an OS provides to the user? | - Command-Driven Interface - Graphical User Interface (GUI) |
| The relationship between Hardware, Operating System, Application and User | |
| How does the OS communicate with the hardware devices and how does it work? | - Each device connected to the computer has a device driver to facilitate the communication between the device and the computer. - The device driver translates the device's specialized commands into commands that the OS understands, and vice-versa. |
| How does an application communicate with the OS to use the services of the OS and the computer hardware? | - Applications communicate with the OS via the Application Programming Interface (API) which allow access to services offered by the OS. |
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