Fundamentals of Computer Science Chapter 2-4 Test

Which of the following is not contained in a CPU?

Memory Cell

Which of the following is not a form of parallel processing?

SISD

In which of the following locations is information most readily available for manipulation by the CPU?

General purpose registers

The bus in a computer is an example of which form of communication?

Parallel

Which of the following instructions does not fall in the category of arithmetic/logic instructions?

JUMP

Which of the following is not a component of a machine instruction?

LOAD

Which of the following is not a component of a machine instruction?

Port

Which of the following is not an activity performed entirely within a CPU?

Fetch instructions

Which step of the machine cycle examines the op-code of the next instruction to be executed? 

Decode

An ARM based processor is an example of what kind of computer architecture?

RISC

Which of the following components of an operating system handles the details associated with particular peripheral equipment

Device drivers

Which of the following components of an operating system is not part of the kernel?

User interface

Multitasking in a computer with only one CPU is accomplished by a technique called

Multiprogramming

Execution of an operating system is initiated by a program called the 

Boot loader

The end of a time slice is indicated by the occurrence of a signal called

An interrupt 

A section of a program that should be executed by at most one process at a time is called

Critical region

Which of the following is not an attempt to provide security

Multitasking

Which of the following items of information would not be contained ina operating systems process table?

The machine language instructions being executed by the process

Which of the following events is detrimental to an Operating Systems performance

Deadlock

Which of the following is a technique for controlling access to a critical region

Semaphore

Which of the following is not involved in a context switch?

User Interface

Which of the following concepts is not associated with critical regions?

Bootstrap

Which of the following is not a role of a typical operating system?

Assist the computer user in the task of processing digital photographs

Which of the following is a task that is not performed by the kernel of an operating system?

Communicate with the user

Which of the following is not a means of performing multiple activities at the same time?

Virtual memory

Which of the following components of an operating system is executed as the result of an interrupt signal?

Dispatcher

1. Which of the following would be a concern for the file manager in a multi-user computer system that would not be a concern in a single-user system

Maintain records regarding the ownership of files

Which of the following would not require real-time processing?

Forecasting world-wide trend for the next five year period

Which of the following is not a way of classifying networks?

Router vs bridge

Which of the following connects existing networks to form an internet?

Router

Which of the following is protocol for controlling the right to transmit a message in a network?

CSMA/CD

Which of the following is not a means of performing interprocess communication over a network?

ICANN

Which of the following is assigned the task of providing individual users access to the internet?

Access ISPS

Which of the following is not an application of the internet

CERT

The primary purpose of which of the following is not the enhancement of security?

ICANN

Which of the following is used to translate between IP addresses and mnemonic addresses

Name Server

Which of the following is not a means of connecting networks?

Server

Which layer of the TCP/IP hierarchy actually transmits a message

Link

Which of the following identifies the application to which a message arriving form the internet should be given?

Port Number

Which standards organization produced the OSI reference model for internet communication?

ISO

Which of the following is an Internet application that is named after its underlying protocol?

FTP

Which of the following is not a means of implementing server-side activities

Applets

Which of the following is not a protocol used in the basic TCP/IP software hierarchy?

POP3

Which generation of wireless network technology uses the packet-switched IP network?

4G