Windows Operating System - Short Questions and Answers

 

Windows Operating System - Short Questions and Answers. This post contains the most important and more conceptual short questions with answers of Computer Science, ICS Part-I Chapter No.7: Windows Operating System, for the examinations and interview questions for jobs:

 

Chapter No.7
Windows Operating System

Short Questions & Answers

Q.1: Define operating system?

Answer:

An operating system is system software that provides an interface for the user to interact with the computer. Without an operating system, a computer would be useless. It is used to organize and control hardware and software so that the devices it manages behave in a flexible but predictable way.

 

Q.2: What is the kernel?

Answer:

The kernel is the core of an operating system. It remains in the main memory and manages memory, files, and devices; starts applications; and controls the computer’s resources.

 

Q.3: What is the purpose of the operating system?

Answer:

The purposes of the operating system are as under:

• Manage hardware and software resources of the system. These are resources include the processor, memory, disk space, etc.
• It provides a stable, consistent way for the application to deal with hardware without having to know all the details of the hardware.

 

Q.4: What is the GUI Operating System?

Answer:

A GUI (Graphical User Interface) operating system provides a graphical user interface to establish user communication with the computer. The user does not need to memorize commands to perform various tasks. Examples of GUI operating systems are Windows, Linux, and Solaris, etc.

 

Q.5: What is CLI Operating System?

Answer:

A CLI (Command Line Interface) operating system provides a command prompt to the user for typing different commands to interact with the computer. The user needs to memorize commands to perform different tasks. Examples of CLI operating systems are DOS, Unix, etc.

 

Q.6: What is meant by multitasking operating system?

Answer:

The multitasking operating system allows a single user to work on two or more tasks at the same time. It is the capability of an operating system to load multiple programs into memory at one time and to perform two or more processes concurrently, such as printing a document while editing another.

 

Q.7: Define multiprocessing?

Answer:

Multiprocessing capability of an operating system to link together two or more CPUs to work in parallel in a single computer system is known as multiprocessing. The multiprocessing operating system divides the work between the CPUs. This increases the processing speed of the computer system.

 

Q.8: What is a multi-programming operating system?

Answer:

A multi-programming operating system allows several programs to share a computer system’s resources at any one time through concurrent use of the CPU. Two or more programs may be active at the same time, but they do not use the same computer resources simultaneously.

 

Q.9: Distinguish between sing-user and multi-user operating system?

Answer:

A single-user operating system allows only a single user to work a computer at a time whereas the multi-user operating system allows more than one user to use a computer system at one time or at different times.

 

Q.10: What is meant by plug and play feature of operating system?

Answer:

Plug and play support means a user can connect (plug) to a device, turn on the computer, and then use (play) the device without having to configure the system manually. Plug & Play is the operating system’s capability of recognizing any new device and assisting in the installation of the device by loading the necessary drivers automatically.

 

Q.11: What is a networking feature?

Answer:

Windows provides full networking support. It contains protocols and utilities for establishing, maintaining, and troubleshooting networks.

 

Q.12: What is the scripting feature of OS?

Answer:

Using a scripting language, a user can easily write a set of commands to carry out a task. CLI (Command Line Interface) operating systems provide powerful scripting functionality.

 

Q.13: What is the desktop?

Answer:

The desktop provides the entry point to the operating system. It serves as a graphics-based on which all graphical elements of the windows operating system are displayed. It contains icons, application windows, dialog boxes, and several toolbars.

 

Q.14: Define the object “My Computer”?

Answer:

My computer window shows the resources of the computer such as a floppy drive, hard drives, and CD drive and other devices attached to the computer. These drives are represented as icons in a window.

 

Q.15: What is My Document folder?

Answer:

My document is a folder created by windows on installation time. It is the default folder for storing different kinds of documents.

 

Q.16: What is Windows Explorer?

Answer:

Windows explorer acts as a directory browser and file manager for Windows. It is an efficient way of locating and managing files on the computer. Using this object you can easily browse through all the drives and network resources available.

 

Q.17: What is Internet Explorer?

Answer:

Internet Explorer (IE) is a web browser that is launched with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is used to surf the Internet and provides advanced features to work on WWW.

 

Q.18: What is the Window?

Answer:

The window is the basic building block of all graphical objects in Microsoft Windows. Windows view most of the graphical objects as a window such as a button, menu, and toolbar, etc. are treated as a separate window. Different applications start in different window object e.g. Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and MS Word, etc.

 

Q.19: What is Control Panel?

Answer:

Control Panel is the place where you can perform system management tasks such as installing/uninstalling new hardware devices, managing system resources through Administrative Tools, sharing printers, and setting up data and time, etc.

 

Q.20: Define the object “Start Button”?

Answer:

The start button is the gateway of accessing most of the programs installed on the computer. You can start any program by just making a mouse click can open or find documents can change windows settings, and can do much more.

 

Q.21: Define mouse events?

Answer:

Mouse events are the activities that can be performed by using the mouse. The following are the most common events triggered with a mouse:

• Left Click
• Right Click
• Drag Event

 

Q.22: Differentiate between left-click and right-click?

Answer:

Left-click is used to select a graphical object such as a file icon or text in a document, or to press a button such as closing, opening, or minimizing a window, etc. Right-click is used to view the properties of an object such as a file, folder, and desktop, etc.

 

Q.23: What is a drag event?

Answer:

Drag event triggers when you press the left mouse button and move the mouse while keeping the left mouse button pressed. This event is used to select more than one items at a time, or to drop an object into another application.

 

Q.24: Define keyboard event?

Answer:

Keyboard events are the activities that can be performed by using the keyboard. Different applications perform different actions against these events. The following are the most common events triggered with a keyboard:

• Key Up
• Key Down

 

Q.24: Differentiate between key up and key down events?

Answer:

Key up triggers when you release an already pressed key of the keyboard whereas key down triggers when you press any of the keyboard’s key.

 

Q.25: Define the term “partition”?

Answer:

A partition is a portion of a physical disk that functions as though it were a physically separate disk. Primary partition and extended partition are two basic types of partition.

 

Q.26: Differentiate between primary and extended partition?

Answer:

Primary Partition: The partition of a hard disk that can be used as the system partition is called the primary partition. It can be made on a basic hard disk, and it cannot be further divided. In Windows operating system up to four primary partitions can be made on a hard disk.

Extended Partition: The portion of the hard disk that can contain other partitions is called an extended partition. Only one of the four partitions allowed per physical disk can be an extended partition, and no primary partition needs to be present to create an extended partition. It can be further divided.

 

Q.27: What Disk Management utility?

Answer:

The Disk Management utility gives a graphical interface for viewing and performing maintenance of disks installed on the computer system. It provides tools for carrying out disk maintenance tasks.

 

Q.28: What is File Management?

Answer:

File management includes all the tasks that are related to files and folders stored on a disk. These tasks include creation, movement, deletion, opening, pasting, etc. of a file or folder. The Windows operating system provides two utilities for file management. These are Windows Explorer and My Computer.

 

Q.29: How is a file opened in an application program in Windows O.S?

Answer:

Files are recognized by their extensions in Microsoft Windows. When you attempt to open a file, Windows checks the file extension against a database of the registered file types (Windows registry) to determine what action it should take. If Windows does not recognize the file type, it offers a dialog box and lets you choose the appropriate application to view the file.

 

Q.30: What is the print queue?

Answer:

Print queue maintains the current status of all active and pending print jobs. You can manipulate a printing job in multiple ways by just double-clicking the printer icon. You can cancel or stop a printing job, change the printing layout, or printing preferences at any time.

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