Operating System MCQs

1019 MCQs  (Page 56 of 102)

Each entry in a segment table has a ____________
A. Segment base
B. Segment peak
C. Segment value
D. None of the mentioned
The segment base contains the ____________
A. Starting logical address of the process
B. Starting physical address of the segment in memory
C. Segment length
D. None of the mentioned
The segment limit contains the ____________
A. Starting logical address of the process
B. Starting physical address of the segment in memory
C. Segment length
D. None of the mentioned
The offset ‘d’ of the logical address must be ____________
A. Greater than segment limit
B. Between 0 and segment limit
C. Between 0 and the segment number
D. Greater than the segment number
If the offset is legal ____________
A. It is used as a physical memory address itself
B. It is subtracted from the segment base to produce the physical memory address
C. It is added to the segment base to produce the physical memory address
D. None of the mentioned
When the entries in the segment tables of two different processes point to the same physical location ____________
A. The segments are invalid
B. The processes get blocked
C. Segments are shared
D. All of the mentioned
The protection bit is 0/1 based on ____________
A. Write only
B. Read only
C. Read €? write
D. None of the mentioned
A multilevel page table is preferred in comparison to a single level page table for translating virtual address to physical address because ____________
A. It reduces the memory access time to read or write a memory location
B. It helps to reduce the size of page table needed to implement the virtual address space of a process
C. It is required by the translation lookaside buffer
D. It helps to reduce the number of page faults in page replacement algorithms