What is a memory leak?

What will be an ideal response?


A memory leak occurs when a memory cell remains allocated to a program, even though it is no longer accessible because no pointer to the cell exists.

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___________ effects are typically used to draw attention to bullets as they appear on the slide during a presentation.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Creating _______ element names to avoid name collisions eliminates the ability to use simple element names to describe data.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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____ exploration is a valuable strategy that can be used by both system administrators and potential intruders for gathering information about a system and its infrastructure vulnerabilities.

A. One-sided B. Sequential C. Inferential D. Combinational

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After you start a program and create a new file, the file only exists in  your computer's random access memory (RAM).

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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