COMPSCI 340 Question and answers 100% correct 2025 Timesharing system - correct answer ✔"a practice in which the CPU executes multiple jobs by switching among them, but the switches occur so frequently that the users can interact with the processes" Virtualization - correct answer ✔"A tech for abstracting the hardware of a single computer into several different execution environments, creates an illusion that each environment is running on its own private computer" Kernel - correct answer ✔OS component running on the comptuer at all time after system boot Kernel mode - correct answer ✔CPU mode in which all instructions are enabled. The kernel runs in this mode User mode - correct answer ✔CPU mode for executing user processes in which some instructions are limited or not allowed Priorty inversion - correct answer ✔A scheduling challenge arising when a higher prioirty process needs to read or modify kernel data that are currently being accessed by a lower priority porcess.Scheduler - correct answer ✔The part of the OS that determines the next job to be done Monitor - correct answer ✔A high level language synchronization construct that protects variables from race condition
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