Cabrillas, Art John S.

BSIT 2.1 A

PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY

Part 1 (3 items x 5 points)

1. Three (3) kernel components that you think are the most significant in terms of process
control.

 Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) - is a logical division of code

that serves as an abstraction layer between a computer's physical
hardware and its software. It provides a device driver interface
allowing a program to communicate with the hardware.

 Windows Executive - The Windows operating system uses the

term executive layer to refer to kernel-mode components that
provide a variety of services to device drivers, including Object
management, Memory management, Process and thread
management, Input/output management.

 Window and graphic system - is a system for sharing a

computer's graphical display presentation resources among
multiple applications at the same time. In a computer that has a
graphical user interface (GUI), you may want to use several
applications at the same time (this is called task). Using a separate
window for each application, you can interact with each application
and go from one application to another without having to reinitiate
it.

2. Give one (1) sample process that can be executed by each kernel
component you have selected.

 Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) - is a logical division of code

that serves as an abstraction layer between a computer's physical
hardware and its software. It provides a device driver interface
allowing a program to communicate with the hardware.
  Windows Executive - The Windows operating system uses the
term executive layer to refer to kernel-mode components that
provide a variety of services to device drivers, including Object
management, Memory management, Process and thread
management, Input/output management.

 Window and graphic system - is a system for sharing a

computer's graphical display presentation resources among
multiple applications at the same time. In a computer that has a
graphical user interface (GUI), you may want to use several
applications at the same time (this is called task). Using a separate
window for each application, you can interact with each application
and go from one application to another without having to reinitiate
it.

Part 2 (60 points)

a) Windows 10
b) 16.00GB
c) (4.4GB usable)
d) Microsoft edge – the highest memory utilization (313.5MG)
Microsoft Word – 74.6MB
Task Manager – 20.8MB
Windows Explorer – 57.1 MB
Microsoft Power Point – 39.9 MB
e) Antimalware Service Executable – the highest memory utilization
(167.2MB)
Application Frame Host – 8.5 MB
COM Surrogate – 2.0 MB
Cortana (2) – 1.5 MB
CTF Loader – 3.9 MB
f) Microsoft Edge – the more I browse the application the more the
RAM expand.
 Router is a physical or virtual appliance that passes
information between two or more packet-switched computer
networks. A router inspects a given data packet's destination
Internet Protocol address (IP address), calculates the best
way for it to reach its destination and then forwards it
accordingly.
  Bluetooth is a telecommunications industry specification that
describes how mobile devices, computers and other devices
can easily communicate with each other using a short-range
wireless connection.
 Headphones are a hardware device that can be plugged into a
computer, laptop, smartphone, mp3 player or other device to
privately listen to audio without disturbing anyone in the vicinity.
They are plug and play devices and do not require any sort of
installation before use.

The terms "operating system" and "device driver" both refer to

pieces of software, however an operating system is used to control
a particular connected device, whilst a device driver serves as an
interface.
While utilizing task manager to kill a process will typically reset
your computer, doing so can totally close an application, harm your
computer, and cause you to lose any unsaved data.