MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

OPERATING SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The OS provides a platform that enables what to be run?
A
Applications
B
Hardware
C
Cache
D
Processes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An operating system (OS) manages all other applications and programs in a computer, and it is loaded into the computer by a boot program. It enables applications to interact with a computer’s hardware.

Detailed explanation-2: -When you double-click the program, the operating system “launches” the program, doing the housekeeping steps of allocating an area of memory within RAM for the program, loading the first section of the program’s machine code into that memory, and finally directing the CPU to start running that code.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operating system runs on computer hardware and serves as platform for other software to run on. An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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