Module 1 — OS foundations · OS fundamentals
OS fundamentals
General · Learn → Example → Practice → Check
What you will learn
- Layer on hardware
- Manages files and processes
- Not an expertise certificate
What will you learn?
This course is a separate, deeper look after Computer Fundamentals.
The core idea
An OS sits between you and hardware. It starts the machine, offers a desktop or login, manages files, users, memory, devices and processes. Windows, Linux and macOS are operating systems. Completing this course does not make you a system administrator.
Key points
- Layer on hardware
- Manages files and processes
- Not an expertise certificate
Example
Clicking a folder icon is you asking the OS to list files from storage.
Try this
- Name three jobs of an OS.
Practice
Name three jobs of an OS.
Question 1
An operating system mainly…
Summary
Same idea as the OS skill exam.
Summary
Same idea as the OS skill exam.