COP4600 Final Combined Correct Questions & Answers!!(COMPLETE FULL SOLUTION PACK)EXAM BUNDLE

What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - ANSWER Registers, ALU, and control unit Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and general purposed of these - ANSWER Registers Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations - ANSWER ALU Hardware which tracks state/sta...

process - ANSWER A program in execution program - ANSWER A passive executable file stored on disk. Becomes process when executable file is loaded into memory. One of these can be several processes progress - ANSWER If no process is executing in its critical section and some processes wish to e...

Virtual Memory - ANSWER A technique that allows us to run programs whose logical address space is larger than the physical address space TLB stands for - ANSWER Translation Lookaside Buffer Translation Lookaside Buffer - ANSWER TLB contains a subset of the page table to speed up memory access ...

port - ANSWER A __________ is a set of wires that connects an I/O device and the computer. daisy-chained - ANSWER A device that allows other devices to hook up to it in turn is said to support __________ devices. bus - ANSWER A __________ is a common set of wires used by more than one I/O devi...

What must I/O devices be connected to in order to do anything? - ANSWER A computer What is a port? - ANSWER A set of wires that connects an I/O device and the computer. A device that allows other devices to hook up to it in turn is said to support what? - ANSWER Daisy-chained devices What i...

Frame - ANSWER In paging, physical memory is divided into a number of equal sized blocks. Each of these is referred to as a _________. Hit Ratio - ANSWER The percentage of time that the desired information is found in the TLB Hot Stand By Mode - ANSWER A computer that is monitoring other compu...

What does a process control block include? - ANSWER Information on the process's state: process state/process number/program counter/registers/memory limits/list of open files/... Comparing virtual machines and containers, which one is more light weight and runs more efficiently? - ANSWER Contai...

In a multiprogramming system the main memory is not generally occupied simultaneously by multiple processes. - ANSWER False A hardware mechanism is needed for translating virtual addresses to physical main memory addresses at the time of execution of the instruction that contains the reference....

Main Memory - ANSWER The only storage that the CPU can directly access. Registers - ANSWER Single words of memory that the CPU can do arithmetic and logic in. Base Register - ANSWER Used to hold the lowest memory address a processor can access. Limit Register - ANSWER Used to hold the size ...