Operating Systems Vocabulary Match

a. Process 1. A Process that is on the CPU and executing b. Thread c. Ready State of a Process d. Running State of a Process 2. The core of the operating system that interfaces between an application program and the hardware. 3. An executable that is executing or ready to execute or waiting for something, not just residing on the disk 4. The data structure that holds all the relevant information about a process 5. The operating system is ordered by concise layers, each with a specific purpose, that build on each other. 6. A Process that has all it needs to run but is not on the CPU executing. e. Blocked State of Process f. Process Control Block g. kernel h. System Call i. Monolithic System Architecture 7. One big program that has all the operating system in it 8. The kernel of the operating system contains only the minimal amount of functionality, and other functions run as ordinary user processes. 9. A semi-independent sub-process of a process that can run concurrently with others like it in the process. 10. A process is in a wait queue, because it needs something before it can continue, such as keyboard input from the user j. Layered System Architecture k. Microkernel 11. How a user program gets services from the operating system