Targets
1:
Revise Operating Systems and user interfaces
2:
Show evidence of revision and use of key words in your answers
Questions
1. An Operating System controls all input and output devices. Also, it manages storage and memory as well as handling errors or crashes.
3. An advantage of a GUI is that it makes multi-tasking easy, can organise and arrange many windows.
4. A disadvantage of a GUI is that it takes up a lot of space in memory and storage.
5. A command line interface works by the user interacting with the device by typing written instructions/commands.
7. Mainframe is the odd one out of laptop, desktop and netbook because it performs more difficult calculations at high-speed.
12. A mainframe computer is a data processing system employed mainly in large organizations for various applications, including bulk data processing, process control, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.
1:
Revise Operating Systems and user interfaces
2:
Show evidence of revision and use of key words in your answers
Questions
1. An Operating System controls all input and output devices. Also, it manages storage and memory as well as handling errors or crashes.
3. An advantage of a GUI is that it makes multi-tasking easy, can organise and arrange many windows.
4. A disadvantage of a GUI is that it takes up a lot of space in memory and storage.
5. A command line interface works by the user interacting with the device by typing written instructions/commands.
7. Mainframe is the odd one out of laptop, desktop and netbook because it performs more difficult calculations at high-speed.
12. A mainframe computer is a data processing system employed mainly in large organizations for various applications, including bulk data processing, process control, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.