Memory Management Quiz (4) Test your knowledge on memory management in operating systems with this quiz containing 11 questions. remus2009 published on July 17 Stacked 1/11 What is the purpose of memory management in operating systems? To allocate and deallocate memory To increase CPU performance To manage network connections To schedule processes 2/11 Which of the following is not a memory management technique? Swapping Virtual memory Multitasking Fragmentation 3/11 What is thrashing in memory management? When the operating system is overwhelmed with I/O operations When a program keeps swapping pages excessively When a process becomes unresponsive When memory leaks occur 4/11 What does the term 'paging' refer to in memory management? The process of dividing physical memory into fixed-size blocks The process of dividing logical memory into fixed-size blocks The process of compacting free memory blocks The process of swapping processes to disk 5/11 Which memory management unit translates virtual addresses to physical addresses? Cache controller Memory controller Translation lookaside buffer Memory management unit 6/11 What is the purpose of virtual memory in memory management? To increase the amount of physical memory available To reduce memory leaks To prevent fragmentation To speed up I/O operations 7/11 Which algorithm is used to find a page in the page table in a virtual memory system? Least Recently Used (LRU) First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) FIFO Page Table Lookaside Buffer (PTLB) 8/11 What is the purpose of memory protection in memory management? To prevent unauthorized access to memory regions To increase CPU performance To reduce system crashes To allocate memory dynamically 9/11 Which of the following is not a common memory management issue? Memory leaks Stack overflow Fragmentation Thrashing 10/11 In a segmented memory model, what does each segment represent? A fixed-size block of memory A variable-size block of memory A page in the page table An instruction in the program 11/11 Which memory management technique involves dividing physical memory into equal-sized blocks? Segmentation Paging Swapping Virtual memory