Which of the following statements is FALSE?
2018
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
- A.
A trap is a hardware-generated interrupt caused either by an error or a user request.
- B.
An operating system is interrupt-driven.
- C.
A bootstrap program is loaded at power-up or reboot.
- D.
The program running at all times on a computer is the kernel.
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Correct answer: A
A trap is a software-generated interrupt used to invoke system calls or handle exceptions, whereas hardware interrupts are triggered by external devices. Consequently, the claim that traps are hardware-generated is factually inaccurate according to established operating system theory.