Question 1 (30 marks) This question tests your knowledge of key concepts of operating systems. a.Answer each of the foll

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Question 1 (30 marks) This question tests your knowledge of key
concepts of operating systems. a.Answer each of the following
questions with a sentence or two. i.What is a daemon? State two
roles that might be carried out by daemons. ii.What is the
difference between Linux and GNU? iii.What is the difference
between a hard RTS and a soft RTS? iv.In Linux, what is the purpose
of a user group? v.Why is buffering commonly used for I/O
operations? (10 marks) b.Outline the boot process of a system using
UEFI. Highlight two benefits UEFI has over BIOS. (10 marks) c.Using
the information in Table 1, fill in the correct values for the
directory, File Allocation Table (FAT) and the disk blocks. The
characters ‘EOF’ indicate the last block of a file. The file aaa
contains a number of a characters, bbb contains b characters and
ccc contains c characters. (10 marks) Alternative version of table
Table 1: Table 1 Directory FAT Disk blocks file start 0 0 aaa 1 2 1
aaaaaaaaaaaa bbb 3 2 15 2 aaaaaaaaaaaa ccc 4 3 5 3 bbbbbbbbbbbb 4 7
4 5 10 5 bbbbbbbbbbbb 6 6 7 7 cccccccccccc 8 9 8 cccccccccccc 9 14
9 cccccccccccc 10 13 10 11 11 12 12 13 EOF 13 bbbbbbbbbbbb 14 EOF
14 cccccccccccc 15 15 aaaaaaaaaaaa.