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  • A program that converts a high-level language program to a set of instructions that can run on a computer is called a


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  • A. Compiler
  • B. Debugger
  • C. Editor
  • D. All of the above
  • E. None of the above

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  • Compiler 


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    • 1. The system/370 assembler language

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    • A. allows the programmer to write base registers and displacements explicitly in the source program.
    • B. is used to remember which of the general-purpose registers are currently available as base registers, and what base addresses they contain.
    • C. allows multiple programs to reside in separate areas of core at the same time.
    • D. is a term that refers to the control programs of an operating system.
    • E. None of the above
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    • 2. For how many processes which are sharing common data, the Dekker's algorithm implements mutual exclusion?

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    • A. 1
    • B. 2
    • C. 3
    • D. 4
    • E. None of the above
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    • 3. Which of the following is not applications software?

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    • A. Word processing
    • B. Spreadsheet
    • C. UNIX
    • D. Desktop publishing
    • E. None of the above
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    • 4. If you do not know which version of MS-DOS you are working with, which command will you use after having booted your operating system?

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    • A. FORMAT command
    • B. DIR command
    • C. VER command
    • D. DISK command
    • E. None of the above
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    • 5. Job Control Language (JCL) statements are used to

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    • A. Read the input from the slow-speed card reader to the high-speed magnetic disk
    • B. Specify, to the operating system, the beginning and end of a job in a batch
    • C. Allocate the CPU to a job
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the description "resolving symbolic address (labels) and generating machine language" is associated with

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    • A. Assembly and output
    • B. Code generation
    • C. Storage assignment
    • D. Syntax analysis
    • E. None of the above
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    • 7. If you want to execute more than one program at a time, the systems software you are using must be capable of:

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    • A. word processing
    • B. virtual memory
    • C. compiling
    • D. multitasking
    • E. None of the above
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    • 8. Which of the following is not true about the memory management?

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    • A. virtual memory is used only in multi-user systems
    • B. segmentation suffers from external fragmentation
    • C. paging suffers from internal fragmentation
    • D. segmented memory can be paged
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 9. Scissoring enables

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    • A. a part of data to be displayed
    • B. entire data to be displayed
    • C. full data display on full area of screen
    • D. no data to be displayed
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. Feed back queue

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    • A. are very easy to implement
    • B. dispatch tasks according to execution characteristics
    • C. are used to favor real-time tasks
    • D. require manual intervention to implement properly
    • E. None of the above
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