CompTIA Tech+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified!, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 17Services and Processes: Objective 3.1: Identify components of an OS

Operating systems bear responsibility for executing applications and managing interactions between different pieces of software running on a computer. Each time an application executes, it runs as a process. Some processes are configured as services. These services have special privileges to execute in the background.

In this chapter, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the second set of subtopics for Tech+ objective 3.1:

• Services
• Processes

The remainder of objective 3.1 is covered in Chapter 16, “Filesystems,” and Chapter 18, “Drivers, Utilities, and Interfaces.”

APPLICATIONS

You use a wide variety of software applications every day, ranging ...