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Mastering Memory Management Quiz

Test your knowledge on operating system memory management concepts with this engaging quiz. From partitioning techniques to memory addressing, challenge yourself to see how well you understand these fundamental principles!

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Main memory divided into a number of static partitions at system generation time is _______.

Fixed partitioning

Simple segmentation

Dynamic partitioning

Simple paging

Main memory divided into a number of equal size frames is the _______ technique.

Simple paging

Dynamic partitioning

Fixed partitioning

Virtual memory segmentation

With _______ a process is loaded by loading all of its segments into dynamic partitions that need not be contiguous.

Simple paging

Virtual memory segmentation

Virtual memory paging

Simple segmentations

One technique for overcoming external fragmentation is _______.

Compaction

Relocation

Partitioning

A _______ is a particular example of logical address in which the address is expressed as a location relative to some known point, usually a value in a processor register.

Logical address

Relative address

Absolute address

Physical address

The concept of Memory Management satisfies certain system requirements including:

Relocation

Protection

Physical organization

All of the above

In the Dynamic Partitioning technique of memory management, the placement algorithm that chooses the block that is closest in size to the request is called _______.

First-fit

Best-fit

Last-fit

Next-fit

In the Dynamic Partitioning technique of memory management, the placement algorithm that scans memory from the location of the last placement and chooses the next available block that is large enough to satisfy the request is called ______.

Last-fit

Best-fit

Next-fit

First-fit

A problem with the largely obsolete Fixed Partitioning memory management technique is that of:

Allowing only a fixed number of processes

Inefficient use of memory

Internal fragmentation

All of the above

The page table for each process maintains _______.

The physical memory location of the process

The frame location for each page of the process

The page location for each frame of the process

The logical memory location of the process

In a system employing a segmentation scheme for memory management wasted space is due to _______.

External fragmentation

Frames of different sizes

Internal fragmentation

Segments of different sizes

In a system employing a paging scheme for memory management wasted space is due to _______.

Internal fragmentation

Pages of different specified sizes

External fragmentation

Frames of different specified sizes

In a system employing a segmentation scheme for memory management a process is divided into _______.

One segment per thread

A number of threads

A number of segments which need not be of equal size

A number of segments which must be of equal size

The use of unequal size partitions provides a degree of flexibility to fixed partitioning.

True

False

Programs in other processes should not be able to reference memory locations in a process for reading or writing purposes without permission.

True

False

In a multiprogramming system the available main memory is not generally shared among a number of processes.

True

False

The memory protection requirement must be satisfied by the operating system rather than the processor.

True

False

Any protection mechanism must have the flexibility to allow several processes to access the same portion of main memory.

True

False

A hardware mechanism is needed for translating relative addresses to physical main memory addresses at the time of execution of the instruction that contains the reference.

True

False

In a multiprogramming environment the programmer knows at the time of coding how much space will be available and where that space will be.

True

False

The principal operation of memory management is to bring processes into main memory for execution by the processor.

True

False

A physical address is the location of a word relative to the beginning of the program and the processor translates that into a logical address.

True

False

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