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This set of Operating System (OS) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Operating System Set 15

Q1 | Binding of instructions and data to memory addresses can be done at                          
Q2 | If the process can be moved during its execution from one memory segment to another, then binding must be                          
Q3 | What is Dynamic loading?
Q4 | What is the advantage of dynamic loading?
Q5 | The idea of overlays is to                          
Q6 | The                        must design and program the overlay structure.
Q7 | The                        swaps processes in and out of the memory.
Q8 | If binding is done at assembly or load time, then the process            be moved to different locations after being swapped out and in again.
Q9 | In a system that does not support swapping                          
Q10 | The address generated by the CPU is referred to as                          
Q11 | The address loaded into the memory address register of the memory is referred to as                          
Q12 | The run time mapping from virtual to physical addresses is done by a hardware device called the                          
Q13 | The size of a process is limited to the size of                          
Q14 | If execution time binding is being used, then a process              be swapped to a different memory space.
Q15 | Swapping requires a                    
Q16 | The backing store is generally a
Q17 | The                  consists of all processes whose memory images are in the backing store or in memory and are ready to run.
Q18 | The                    time in a swap out of a running process and swap in of a new process into the memory is very high.
Q19 | Swapping                be done when a process has pending I/O, or has to execute I/O operations only into operating system buffers.
Q20 | Swap space is allocated                          
Q21 | CPU fetches the instruction from memory according to the value of                          
Q22 | A memory buffer used to accommodate a speed differential is called                          
Q23 | Which one of the following is the address generated by CPU?
Q24 | Run time mapping from virtual to physical address is done by                          
Q25 | Memory management technique in which system stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory is called?