Compare and contrast process and program.

What will be an ideal response?


A process is a program in execution. A program is static, has no state, and has a fixed size on disk, whereas a process is dynamic, exists in memory, may grow or shrink, and has associated with it “state” that represents the information associated with the execution of the program.

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______ is software that monitors and records details of computer usage.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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A software license is a contract distributed with a program that gives you the right to install and use the program on one or more computers

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Calculated fields need to have an alias

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What two terms are used to describe the User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?

A. connectionless protocol B. connection oriented protocol C. best effort protocol D. reliable protocol

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