Systems Software

Question 1

Application Software

Answer 1

Programs used to perform non-maintenance tasks

Question 2

BIOS

Answer 2

Basic operating system used to initialise hardware devices when booting a computer system

Question 3

Closed-Source

Answer 3

Type of software that is provided without its source code files being accessible

Question 4

Device Driver

Answer 4

Software that allows a computer to communicate with a peripheral device

Question 5

Distributed

Answer 5

Operating system that uses multiple computer systems to work on the same task

Question 6

Embedded

Answer 6

Operating system that is built in to a particular device

Question 7

First Come First Served

Answer 7

Scheduling algorithm where each process is executed in the order it arrives

Question 8

Interrupt

Answer 8

Signal sent to a component to request that it handle some process

Question 9

Memory Management

Answer 9

Organising how memory locations are made available to different programs

Question 10

Multi-Level Feedback Queues

Answer 10

Splitting processes into different queues depending on their priority and running higher-priority processes first

Question 11

Multi-Tasking

Answer 11

Rapidly switching between running different programs so that they appear to be running simultaneously

Question 12

Multi-User

Answer 12

Operating system that can handle multiple users simultaneously

Question 13

Open-Source

Answer 13

This type of software is provided with its source code freely accessible

Question 14

Operating System

Answer 14

Software that manages the basic operations of a computer

Question 15

Real-Time

Answer 15

Operating system that executes commands with little delay

Question 16

Round Robin

Answer 16

Scheduling algorithm where each process runs for a fixed amount of time, in the order in which it requests to use the CPU

Question 17

Scheduling

Answer 17

Organising the order in which processes are executed

Question 18

Shortest Job First

Answer 18

Running each process to completion in order from the shortest process to the longest process

Question 19

Shortest Remaining Time

Answer 19

Running the process that will take the least time to be run to completion, switching if a process with less time to completion is added to the queue

Question 20

Translator

Answer 20

Software that converts code written in a high-level language into low-level code

Question 21

Utility Software

Answer 21

System software used to analyse or perform maintenance on a computer system

Question 22

Virtual Machine

Answer 22

Software that allows a computer system to simulate another computer system