Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering

Q1:

The process of transferring data intended for a peripheral device into a disk (or intermediate store) so that it can be transferred to peripheral at a more convenient time or in bulk, is known as

A multiprogramming

B spooling

C caching

D virtual programming

E None of the above

ANS:B - spooling

Spool is a temporary working area, in which one process placed data which can be used by other process.

For eg Without spooling, a word processor would be unable to continue until printing finished.