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Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 3

The process when the computer is switched on and the operating system gets loaded from hard disk to main memory is called__

  1. Booting

  2. Fetching

  3. Processing

  4. Multi – Processing

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Answer: (A) Booting

Explanation

Booting is the start-up process of a computer. When it is switched on, the BIOS runs a self-test and then loads the operating system from the hard disk into main memory (RAM), after which the computer is ready to use.