MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Breaking logical memory into blocks of the same size is called as:
A
Frames
B
Pages
C
Segments
D
Blocks
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Paging is a memory-management scheme that permits the physical-address space of a process to be noncontiguous. With Paging, Physical memory is broken into fixed-sized blocks called frames. Logical memory is also broken into blocks of the same size called pages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hence, the figures having the same shape and size are called as congruent figures.

Detailed explanation-3: -The basic method for implementing paging involves breaking physical memory into fixed-sized blocks called frames and breaking logical memory into blocks of the same size called pages.

Detailed explanation-4: -Logical memory is the address space, assigned to a logical partition, that the operating system perceives as its main storage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The physical memory is broken down into groups of equal size called page frames and the logical memory is divided into pages of the same size. The programs are also considered to be split into pages.

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