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COP4600 Final Combined ExamQuestions and Answers (Latest Update
2024) Verified Answers
What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - Correct Answer
✅Registers, ALU, and control unit
Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are
special and general purposed of these - Correct Answer
✅Registers
Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations -
Correct Answer ✅ALU
Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other
components - Correct Answer ✅Control unit
Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction -
Correct Answer ✅Fetch
Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands
of the instruction and interpreting it - Correct Answer
✅Decode
,COP4600 Final Combined Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024) Verified Answers
Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction -
Correct Answer ✅Execute
Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ -
Correct Answer ✅Protected state
Legacy boot process - Correct Answer ✅BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? - Correct Answer ✅Binary Input
Output System
The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - Correct Answer
✅Bootloader
What does bootstrap mean? - Correct Answer ✅Loading up
the computer
Why are the bootsector and bootloader separate? - Correct
Answer ✅Bootsector is too small
,COP4600 Final Combined Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2024) Verified Answers
Where is the BIOS init stored? - Correct Answer ✅The
motherboard
What boot process is usable on x86-64 (i386) standalone
PCs? - Correct Answer ✅BIOS
What boot process has standard for ARM chipset systems? -
Correct Answer ✅Neither
Which boot process has standardized NVRAM locations for
system variables? - Correct Answer ✅UEFI
Which boot process uses a dedicated bootloader partition? -
Correct Answer ✅BIOS
Which boot process is usable on x86-64 (x64) standalone
PCs? - Correct Answer ✅Both
, COP4600 Final Combined Exam
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Newer boot process - Correct Answer ✅UEFI
Which boot process simplifies diskless systems? - Correct
Answer ✅UEFI
What are the functions of an OS? - Correct Answer
✅Loading programs onto machine, controlling I/O devices,
managing resources (memory, CPU), multi-tasking execution,
data protection (permissions), and task interaction (pipes,
networking)
Mode for directly manipulating hardware - Correct Answer
✅Kernel mode
T/F: No device is directly accessed without the kernel -
Correct Answer ✅True
T/F: Only system libraries can invoke system calls - Correct
Answer ✅False
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