33. ______________ is the oldest and most cost-effective of all mass-storage devices.

A). Magnetic drive

B). Compact diick

C). Magnetic tape

D). Floppy disk

34. _____________ gives the programmer direct access to the machine architecture.

A). Assembly Language

B). Operating System Program

C). Software

D). Coding

35. Disk and tape are forms of _______________ storage.

A). durable

B). sequential

C). random D). direct

36. Operating system user interfaces are divided into two general categories:

______________ and ______________.

A). Command line interfaces, graphical user interfaces

B). Command line interfaces, graphical used interfaces

C). Command lined interfaces, graphical user interfaces

D). Command line interfaces, graphics user interfaces

37. ____________ follows closely behind the CPU and memory in determining the

overall effectiveness of a computer system.

A). Drive I/O

B). Disk I/O

C). I/O

D). none of the above

38. A ___________________ is the smallest schedulable unit in a system.

A). thread

B). packet

C). segment

D). sector