Administering OS

Question 1

What’s a Process and how can it be better managed in OS?

Answer 1

• Process is a unit that makes an application run and OS assigns memory resources to that unit.
• Processes can be scheduled via Task Scheduler and Terminate current ones in Task manager.

Question 2

What’s a Service? How can they be viewed?

Answer 2

• Is a background process that runs without user interaction or knowledge.
• Can be viewed in Task manager.

Question 3

What’s Memory Management within an OS? What’s a technique that allows additional ram to be allocated to processes?

Answer 3

• Allocation of RAM to various Processes.
• Virtual Memory is a technique that OS assigns parts of disk space to act as RAM.

Question 4

What’s Disk Management and how can it be done? What’s the purpose of a partition?

Answer 4

• Is the formatting of disks and management of partitions.
• Parition is a section of disk space that’s been split from a Storage Component such as HDD or SSD into individual sections.

Purpose of Partition is:
* Can store OS in 1, apps in another and files in another partition.
* Improves Read/write speeds of an OS.
* Can allocate various file systems for various stored OS.
* Easier Recovery or installation of OS.

Question 5

What utility allows disk management? How to best manage disk space?

Answer 5

• Disk Management is done by a utility app called Disk Management.

Disk space is managed by:
* Cleaning disk of temporary files.
* Uninstall unwanted software.
* Defragmentation of Disk Drive (HDD only).

Question 6

What are various File Systems?

Answer 6

• NTFS
• FAT32
• EXT4
• HFS+

Question 7

What’s principle of least privilege? What’s UAC (User Access Control)?

Answer 7

• Principle of least priviliege is allocating or providing user minimum access rights to perform their job and nothing additional or extra.
• UAC is a security mechanism within windows that’s more so controlling administration privileges.

Question 8

What’s Device Management? What’s a driver? How can these can be managed?

Answer 8

• Is the management of various hardware and peripheral components and their drivers.
• Driver is a software file that enables communication between hardware components and OS.
• These can be managed by device manager within windows.