Quiz review 3

How can external fragmentation be solved?

• Contiguous allocation of main memory.

• Continuously defragment main memory.

• Divide main memory into frames.

The information contained in the Page Table is used to:

• Store the page number of the active process in main memory.

• Stores information about where to load the process's pages in main memory.

• Store the valid page number of the previously allocated process.

What is the page size in the Windows 10/11 operating system?

• 4 KB

• 2 KB

• 1 MB.

When many unused holes of memory appear but they couldn’t be used for allocation, we should call it is a:

• Defragment
• Segment

• Paging

What is the page size in the Windows 10/11 operating system?

• 4 KB

• 2 KB

• 1 MB

Which object does the operating system store and update the page table for?

• each statement

• each thread

• each process

What memory allocation method does the Windows operating system use?

• Segmentation

• Partition

• Paging

With the base and limit registers, what should each logical address have to do with the limit register value?

• equal

• greater than

• less than

In the memory paging mechanism of the operating system, what is the concept of “page”?

• Partition unit in process space.

• Partitioning unit in physical memory space.

• The maximum amount of memory that a process can request to allocate.

Where is the address of the paging table stored?

• stack pointer

• base pointer of the paging table

• page pointer