Operating systems employ a technique called ________ to prevent indefinite postponement—as a thread waits in the ready state, the operating system gradually increases the thread’s priority to ensure that the thread will eventually run.

The file system and the IOCS support application programs in real time as they execute and thus must be __________.

a. transient b. open source c. linkable d. resident

The SNMP management system (a computer running management software) sends and requests information from an SNMP ____.

A. agent B. monitor C. filter D. protocol