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Unit 3: Process Management-II
Following is the original Power Managed (ACPI, APM) Start (OS Initialization) logic diagram Notes
which may follow as a result of external power on or internal OS waking Interrupt.
Figure: 3.7: OS Initialization
Self Assessment
Multiple choice questions:
1. A thread
(a) is a lightweight process where the context switching is low.
(b) is a lightweight process where the context switching is high.
(c) is used to speed up paging.
(d) none of the above.
2. Process is
(a) program in High level language kept on disk
(b) contents of main memory
(c) a program in execution
(d) a job in secondary memory
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