MCQ Bank
When the process tries to access locations that are not in memory, the hardware traps the operating system. This is called as ___________.
- A) Page replacement
- B) Segmentation
- C) Page Fault
- D) Paging
In pages segmentation, the logical address is legal if d is _________segment length.
- A) Greater than
- B) Less than
- C) Equal to
- D) Greater than or equal to
Following statement is NOT true about Virtual memory.
- A) Virtual memory also allows files and memory to be shared by several different processes through page sharing.
- B) Virtual memory makes the processes to stuck when the collective size of all the processes becomes greater than the size of main memory.
- C) Virtual memory help in executing bigger programs even greater in size that of main memory.
- D) Virtual memory makes the task of programming easier because the programmer need not worry about the amount of physical memory,
The logical address of Intel 80386 is _________.
- A) 128 bits
- B) 64 bits
- C) 48 bits
- D) 36 bits
An optimal page-replacement algorithm has the lowest page fault rate of all algorithms.
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
How does a logical-address space is represented?
- A) Through Segments
- B) Through Critical section
- C)
- D)
Each page is a power of -------- bytes long in paging scheme.
- A) 3
- B) 5
- C) 2
- D) 4
The high paging activity is called _______
- A) Thrashing
- B) Segmentation
- C) Page Fault
- D) Multiprogramming
In paged segmentation, we divide every segment in a process into __________ pages.
- A) Fixed size
- B) Variable size
- C)
- D)
A ____________ system is similar to a paging system with swapping
- A) Context switching
- B) Demand paging
- C) Page fault
- D) None of the given options
To eliminate external fragmentation in segmentation the scheme used is ___________.
- A) Fixed size partition scheme
- B) Variable size paging scheme
- C) Variable size partition scheme
- D) Fixed size paging scheme
_________ allows directories to have shared sub directories and files.
- A) Tree structure
- B) None
- C) Both (Acyclic graph and tree structure)
- D) Acyclic graph
The main criteria for Page Replacement in Optimal Page Replacement Algorithm is to
- A) replace the page which is biggest in size
- B) replace the page which is smaller in size
- C) replace that page which will not be used for the longest period of time.
- D) replace that page which will be required most frequently in the execution of a process
Memory protection in paging is achieved by associating ___________ with each page. This bit indicates whether the page is in the process address space or not.
- A) segment table
- B) counting bits
- C) paging table
- D) protection bits
____________ is commonly implemented as demand paging.
- A) Logical Addressing
- B) Paging
- C) Virtual Memory
- D) Physical Memory
A page table needed for keeping track of pages of the page table is called --------------
- A) Page size
- B) Page directory
- C) 2-level paging
- D) Page table size
In __________ scheme free frames are equally divided among processes.
- A) None of the given options
- B) Fixed Allocation
- C) Proportional Allocation
- D) Priority Allocation
We want a page replacement algorithm with the _____________ page-fault rate.
- A) Lowest
- B) None of the given
- C) Highest
- D) Normal
__________is a variation of fork system call in several Unix operating system.
- A) avfork ( )
- B) bfork ( )
- C) vfork ( )
- D) wfork ( )
The segment table maps the _________________ to physical addresses.
- A) Two-dimensional logical addresses
- B) One-dimensional logical addresses
- C) Page addresses
- D) Shared page addresses