Operating System MCQs on “Memory Management – Segmentation”
1. In segmentation, each address is specified by ____________
a) a segment number & offset
b) an offset & value
c) a value & segment number
d) a key & value
Answer: a
Clarification: None.
2. In paging the user provides only ________ which is partitioned by the hardware into ________ and ______
a) one address, page number, offset
b) one offset, page number, address
c) page number, offset, address
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: a
Clarification: None.
3. Each entry in a segment table has a ____________
a) segment base
b) segment peak
c) segment value
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: a
Clarification: None.
4. 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
Answer: b
Clarification: None.
5. 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
Answer: c
Clarification: None.
6. 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
Answer: b
Clarification: None.
7. 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
Answer: a
Clarification: None.
8. 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
Answer: c
Clarification: None.
9. The protection bit is 0/1 based on ____________
a) write only
b) read only
c) read – write
d) none of the mentioned
Answer: c
Clarification: None.
10. If there are 32 segments, each of size 1Kb, then the logical address should have ____________
a) 13 bits
b) 14 bits
c) 15 bits
d) 16 bits
Answer: a
Clarification: To specify a particular segment, 5 bits are required. To select a particular byte after selecting a page, 10 more bits are required. Hence 15 bits are required.
11. Consider a computer with 8 Mbytes of main memory and a 128K cache. The cache block size is 4 K. It uses a direct mapping scheme for cache management. How many different main memory blocks can map onto a given physical cache block?
a) 2048
b) 256
c) 64
d) 8
Answer: c
Clarification: None.
12. 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
Answer: b