Name: ______________________________

Section: __________

CS 115

Homework #3

Operating Systems and Utility Programs

Fill in the blank with the correct term.

1. A ____________________ controls how you enter data and instructions and how information is displayed on the screen.

2. With ____________________ the operating system allocates a portion of a storage medium, usually the hard disk, to function as additional RAM.

3. A ____________________ is a segment of memory or storage in which items are placed while waiting to be transferred from an input device or to an output device.

4. A ____________________ is a type of system software that allows a user to perform maintenance-type tasks, usually related to managing a computer, its devices, or its programs.

5. ____________________ is a multitasking operating system developed in the early 1970s by scientists at Bell Laboratories.

6. With ____________________, a user plugs in a device, turns on the computer, and then uses the device without having to configure the system manually.

7. A ____________________ is a program that assesses and reports information about various computer resources and devices.

8. ____________________ consists of the programs that control or maintain the operations of the computer and its devices. The two types are the operating system and utility programs.

9. A ____________________ is a specific named location on a storage medium that contains related documents.

10. A ____________________ is a utility that reorganizes the files and unused space on a computer’s hard disk so that the operating system accesses data more quickly and programs run faster.