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Asked: 2026-05-29T10:43:45+00:00

I’m doing some fill in the blanks from a sample exam for my class

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I’m doing some fill in the blanks from a sample exam for my class and I was hoping you could double check my terminology.

  1. The various scheduling queues used by the operating system would consist of lists of processes.
  2. Interrupt handling is the technique of periodically checking to see if a condition (such as completion of some requested I/O operation) has been met.
  3. When the CPU is in kernel mode, a running program has access to a restricted set of CPU functionality.
  4. The job of the CPU scheduler is to select a process on the ready queue and change its state.
  5. The CPU normally supports a vector of interrupts so the OS can respond appropriately when some event of interest occurs in the hardware.
  6. Using traps, a device controller can use idle time on the bus to read from or write to main memory.
  7. During a context switch, the state of one process is copied from the CPU and saved, and the state of a different process is restored.
  8. An operating system consists of a kernel and a collection of application programs that run as user processes and either provide OS services to the user or work in the background to keep the computer running smooth.

There are so many terms from our chapters, I am not quite sure if I am using the correct ones.

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  1. Editorial Team

    My thoughts:
    1. Processes and/or threads. Jobs and tasks aren’t unheard of either. There can be other things. E.g. in MS Windows there are also Deferred Procedure Calls (DPCs) that can be queued.
    2. This must be polling.
    4. Why CPU scheduler? Why not just scheduler?
    6. I’m not sure about traps in the hardware/bus context.

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