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The ______ of a Display is the number of pixels displayed per linear measurement unit.

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Resolution

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In the United States, resolution is generally stated in ____

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DPI - Dots Per Inch

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Written Western Languages are based on systems of symbols called _____________

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Characters

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_____ is a process that generates color approximations by placing small dots of different colors in an interlocking pattern.

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Dithering

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In Graphics, a __________ is a line segment with a specific angle and length in relation to a point of orgin

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Vector

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Components of a video game controller include display generator circuitry, software stored in ROM, a video processor, and ______

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RAM

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Video Display panels are connected to a ______ that's connected to a port on the system bus or a dedicated video bus

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Video Controller

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The number of refresh cycles per second is normally stated in hertz and called the _____

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Refresh Rate

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A _____ contains a matrix of liquid crystals sandwiched between two polarized filter panels that block all light except light approaching from a specific angle

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LCD - Liquid Crystal Display

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_______ displays use excited gas and phosphors to generate colored light

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Plasma

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Modern _____ displays achieve high-quality color display with organic compounds

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LED

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A _______ printer moves a print head containing a matrix of pins over the paper

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Dot Matrix

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A _____ operates with an electrical charge and the attraction of ink to this charge

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Laser Printer

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A _____ is a printer that generates line drawings on wide sheets or rolls of paper

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Plotter

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Pointing Devices can be used to enter drawings into a computer system or control the position of a _____ on a display device

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Curser

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Touch position sensing in a touch screen is usually based on ______

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Capacitance

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A ______ detects specific patterns of bars and boxed

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Bar-Code Scanner

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Bar-Code readers use _____ that sweep a narrow beam back and forth across the bar code

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Scanning Laser

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A ______ generates bitmap representations of printed images

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Optical Scanner

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____ devices combine optical-scanning technology with a special-purpose processor of software to interrupt bitmap content

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

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The process of converting analog sound waves to digital representation is called _____

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Sampling

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____ is a standard for storing and transporting control information between computers and electronic musical instruments

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Musical Instrument Media Interface - (MIDI)

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As _____ pixels size increase image quality improves

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Pixel

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A stored set of numbers describing the content of all pixels in an image is called a ______

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Bitmap

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The _____ plays a dual role as a high-level manager and a tireless low-level worker

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Operating System

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The _____ is the user interface to the OS

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Shell

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Through the _____layer, a user or system administrator can run application and OS utility programs and manage system resources, such as files, folders, and I/O devices

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Command

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A set of commands and syntax requirements is called a _______

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Command Language

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The _____ of the OS contains thousands of reusable components that provide functions ranging from a file and folder manipulation to accessing I/O devices, starting and stopping programs, and creating, moving, and resizing GUI windows

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Service Layer

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The _____ is the OS portion that manages resources and interacts directly with computer hardware

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Kernal

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The resources consumed by resources allocation procedures are sometimes referred to as ______

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System Overhead

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As allocated by the OS, the resources that are apparent to a program or user are called _____

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Virtual Resources

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A _____ is an OS that enables dividing a single physical computer or cluster into multiple virtual machinces

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Hypervisor

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A process or program that divides itself into multiple treads is said to be ______

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Multithreaded

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Threads in the ______ are idle, pending availability of a CPU

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Ready State

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In _____, a thread can be removed involuntarily from the running state

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Primitive Scheduling

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______ scheduling chooses the next thread to be dispatched based on the expected amount of CPU time needed to complete process

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Shortest Time Remaining

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A _____ can execute instructions to process a single transaction, retrieve and store data from an I/O device, or retrieve and analyze one set of process variables

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Thread Cycle

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______ is the assignment of specific memory addresses to system software, application programs, and data

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Memory Allocation

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A CPU's or computer's ______ is the highest numbered storage byte that can be represented.

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Addressable Memory

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When memory allocation is ____, it means all portions of the program and OS are loaded into sequential locations in memory

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Contiguos

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The difference between the first address in physical memory and the address of the first process instruction is called the _____

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Process Offset

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_____ uses memory address operands that refer to actual physical memory locations

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Absolute Addressing

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The process of determining the physical memory address that corresponds to a memory reference is called

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Address Mapping

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The OS maintains a _____ and updates it each time a partition is allocated or freed.

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Memory Partition Table

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_____ Occurs when memory partitions allocated to a single process or purpose are scattered throughout physical memory.

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Fragmentation

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In ______ memory allocation, each process partition has its own offset value

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Noncontiguos

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In virtual memory management, a ______ is a small fixed-size portion of a program, normally between 1 and 4KB.

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Page

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Each memory page in virtual memory management is called a ______

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Page Frame

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A reference to a page held in memory is called a ______

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Page Hit

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A secondary storage region, called the _____, is reserved for the task of storing pages not held in memory

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Swap Space

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______ store information about page locations, allocated page frames, and secondary storage space.

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Page Tables

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An Intel CPU maintains a ______ containing descriptors for all memory segments.

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Global Distributor Table

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Intel Core CPUs implement virtual memory management tables in ______

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Hardware

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OS ______ functions ensure that overall system objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively.

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Resource Allocation

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The _______ layer encapsulates hardware resources, thus controlling and managing access by users and applications

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Kernal Intermost

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The _______ layer encapsulates hardware resources, thus controlling and managing access by users and applications

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Shell

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The command layer of an OS is sometimes called the _______

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Shell

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A request to execute a service-layer function is called a _____

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Service Call

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OS support for running multiple programs simultaneously is called ________

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Multi-Tasking

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A ________ is a unit of executing software that's managed independently by the OS and can request and receive hardware resources and OS services

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Process

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A _______ is a portion of a process that can be scheduled and executed independently.

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Thread

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A ________ is generated at regular intervals of between several dozen and several thousand CPU cycles to give the scheduler an opportunity to suspend the currently executing thread

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Timer Interrupt

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A computer system's _______ memory is the actual number of memory bytes that are physically installed in the machine

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Physical

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After ______, all free partitions form a contiguous block in upper memory.

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Compation

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______ memory allocation uses small fixed-size partitions, usually no larger that 64KB.

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Noncontiguos

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If all page frames are allocated, a page currently in memory, called the ______, must be written to the swap space before the reference page is loaded into a page frame

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Victim

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The _____ is the part of the kernel that accesses storage locations and manages data movement between storage devices and memory.

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Storage I/O layer

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The ____ layer is the bridge between logical and physical views of secondary storage

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File Control

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On a desktop or laptop computer, a ______ is usually and entire physical secondary storage device, a partition of the device, or a removable storage device such as a DVD or Flash drive

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Sector

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Among other things, ______ type determines naming restrictions, allowable operations, and physical organizations

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File

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The relationship between file types and the programs or OS utilities that manipulate them is called ______

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File Association

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A ______ is a data structure that records which allocation units are free and which belong to files.

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Storage Allocation Table

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A ____ is a collection of data items, or fields, that an application program accesses as a single unit

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Logical Record

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A _____ is the unit of storage transferred between the device controller and memory in a single operation.

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Physical Record

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A _____ is a temporary holding area for extracting logical records from physical records

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Buffer

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When a _____ is preformed, the FMS copies all files and directories for an entire storage volume

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Full Backup

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A ____ archives only files that have been modified since the previous incremental backup or full backup

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Incremental Backup

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_____ is a disk storage technique that improves performance and fault tolerance

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RAID

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The ____ layer provides service functions for manipulating files and directories

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File Control

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Via the _____ layer, users preform common file management functions, such as copying, moving, and renaming files

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Command

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