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If you had to design an API for processes in an operating system, which capabilities would it support? (Select all that apply)
What steps are involved in creating a process? (Select all that apply)
What are the advantages of bare-metal hypervisors over hosted hypervisors?
What is 'time sharing' in operating systems?
What is 'space sharing' in operating systems?
What is Inter Process Communication (IPC)?
Containerization is a type of operating-system-level virtualization.
What is an operating system?
Virtual machines are no longer relevant in the age of containers.
What is a process?
What types of virtualization exist? (Select all that apply)
Some pieces of the code in the kernel are loaded into protected areas of memory so applications can't overwrite them.
What is POSIX?
What is a semaphore in operating systems?
What is copy-on-write (COW)?
What is the difference between cache and buffer?
What component determines which process runs at a given moment in time?
What is virtual memory and what purpose does it serve?
What is demand paging?
What is virtualization?