Memory Management Quiz B

What is the term used for a section of a program that performs a particular task?

• Segment

• Block

• Routine

• Module

Which type of routines are permanently in memory and not swapped out to a storage device?

• Static Routines

• Resident Routines

• Dynamic Routines

• Transient Routines

What is another term for memory resident programs in DOS systems?

• Dynamic Programs

• Pop-up Utilities

• Swapping Programs

• Memory Managers

What is the major advantage of using fixed partitions for memory management?

• Scalability

• Simplicity

• Flexibility

• Efficiency

What problem occurs when memory blocks are allocated to a process more than their requested size?

• External Fragmentation

• Internal Fragmentation

• Memory Leakage

• Segmentation Fault

Which memory management approach divides a program into several segments of varied sizes?

• Dynamic Partitioning

• Swapping

• Paging

• Segmentation

What is the term used for the memory management scheme that eliminates the need for contiguous allocation of physical memory?

• Dynamic Partitioning

• Segmentation

• Paging

• Swapping

What is the purpose of swapping in memory management?

• To allocate memory to a process

• To free memory for other processes

• To move processes between disk and memory

• To defragment memory

What is the main advantage of dynamic partition memory management?

• Efficient memory usage

• Contiguous memory allocation

• No external fragmentation

• Fixed partition sizes

What problem occurs when a page of smaller size is placed in a larger size frame in paging?

• Segmentation Fault

• External Fragmentation

• Internal Fragmentation

• Memory Leakage