UGC NET CSE | June 2012 | Part 3 | Question: 69

Question

What is the meaning of ‘Hibernate’ in WindowsXP/Windows 7?

• A. Restart the computers in safe mode
• B. Restart the computers in normal mode
• C. Shutdown the computer terminating all the running applications
• D. Shutdown the computer without closing the running applications

Answer 1

Answer :(D) Shutdown the computer without closing the running applications.

Hibernation (or suspend to disk) in computing is powering down a computer while retaining its state. Upon hibernation, the computer saves the contents of its random access memory (RAM) to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage.