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Decks in this class (19)

Topic 1 - What is an operating
Noin this situation the applicati...,
These programs sit alongside the ...,
These comprise of shell core oper...
68  cards
Topic 2 - Installing an operating
Regarding the history of linux wh...,
In what year didlinux spread worl...,
This is a perfect copy of data bi...
32  cards
Topic 3 - Installing and running software
What is arequired package,
In terms of installing a package ...,
How aresoftware packages installe...
28  cards
Topic 4 - Shells
What is a shell,
This is what allows a user to int...,
What are the rues format whenpass...
52  cards
Topic 5 - The command-line interface
What is the outcome of typingsudo...,
This is used to redirect the stdo...,
Standing for global regular expre...
138  cards
Topic 6 - Scripting and archiving
This will create a tar archive fi...,
This will decompress and extract ...,
This will decompress and extract ...
106  cards
Topic 7 – Structure of an operating system
The processor is awre of this by ...,
How do linux desktop environments...,
What is amicro kernel
68  cards
Topic 8 – Processors and hardware
Regarding the items below how doe...,
What is the syscall machine instr...,
This is achieved by the os it wil...
68  cards
Topic 9 – Processes and scheduling
What is a process,
Describepriority scheduling,
Describe the featurenicenessthat ...
92  cards
Topic 10 – Services and daemons
This linux command will search th...,
This command will use the sigkill...,
This will immediately stop the cr...
92  cards
Topic 11 – Context switching
In regards to the context block t...,
If a semaphore is being used for,
The main feature of the processor...
92  cards
Topic 12 – Memory management
Describe whatreloactionis,
Name 4tasks that the memory manag...,
Describe the linux directory proc...
116  cards
Topic 13 – Input/output Contents
Describe thestatus register withi...,
This is also known as aninterrupt...,
What is an
140  cards
Topic 14 – Files and directories
This was first introduced as an e...,
Describe the linux directory bin ...,
This is a path that starts from t...
82  cards
Topic 15 – Disk management
What is formatting known as withi...,
What gain is there for a file sys...,
What is the basic syntax to mount...
124  cards
Topic 16 – Users and security
Within linux where were passwords...,
What does the salt value added to...,
How does linux determine which fi...
84  cards
Topic 17 – Booting and configuration
This linux directory is used to h...,
Describe the linux file,
Describe the linux directory
62  cards
Topic 19 – The operating system zoo
Disadvantages include this is a s...,
In this setup there will be two o...,
This is mainly found on personal ...
40  cards
Topic 20 – Virtualisation
How ishardware support for virtua...,
This view from the containers per...,
Describe the file system view of ...
68  cards

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