Which of the following steps is NOT related to booting?

Which of the following steps is NOT related to booting? Correct Answer System is already running but needs to be started

Key Points

 Booting:

  It is the process of starting a computer. It can be initiated by hardware such as a button press, or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit has no software in its main memory, so some processes must load software into memory before it can be executed.

The starting up of the computer is known as booting. It initiates all the devices before starting any work on the computer. Moreover, the operating system is loaded into the main memory.

Booting process in six steps:

  1. The Startup. It is the first step that involves switching the power ON.
  2. BIOS: Power On Self Test. It is an initial test performed by the BIOS.
  3. Loading of OS.
  4. System Configuration.
  5. Loading System Utilities.
  6. User Authentication and keeping all applications in a state of readiness needed by the user.

Here, The system is already running but needs to be started here the system completed above all six steps of booting and moved to run state of the system.

Hence the correct answer is system is already running but needs to be started.

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