Lesson 6 - Memory Management

What do you call the task of subdividing the memory among processes?

• Memory Management

• File Management

• I/O Management

• Computer Management

Why do we need memory management?

• Keep track of memory space used by program

• Proper utilization of the main memory

• Maintain data integrity

• All of the choices are correct

Which among the following is non-contiguous memory management scheme?

• single

• fixed partition

• dynamic partition

• segmentation

How many partitions does single contiguous memory management has?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• variable

Logical address is an address generated by the CPU. Physical address are addresses available in memory unit.

• True

• False

Fixed-size block in physical memory are called pages. Blocks of the same size in logical memory are frames.

• True

• False

With paging, all components of a program reside in a contiguous area of physical memory.

• True

• False

With segmentation, all components of a program reside in a non-contiguous area of physical memory.

• True

• False

It is a section of a hard disk that's set up to emulate the computer's RAM.

• Virtual Memory

• Main Memory

• Secondary Memory

• Primary Memory

When there are unusable small blocks of free memory, you are experiencing ______.

• External Fragmentation

• Internal Fragmentation

• Freezing

• Deadlock