COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

OPERATING SYSTEMS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A company has 20 employees each of whom have a personal computer. Each employee needs to be able to run several programs at any given time. Which type of operating system would work best?

A	Single-user, single task operating system
B	Single-user, multi-task operating system
C	Multi-user operating system
D	Unix operating system

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Multiuser/Multitasking OS It is an operating system that permits several users to utilize the programs that are concurrently running on a single network server.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Multi-user operating system. A multi-user operating system facilitates multiple users to work on a single computer system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of Single User Multi-Tasking operating systems: Linus, Microsoft Windows, Google Android, Apple macOS, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -The four types of operating systems we generally use are single user operating systems (such as DOS), multi-user operating systems (such as UNIX), multi-tasking operating systems (such as Windows and macOS), and multi-user, multi-tasking operating systems (such as Linux).

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