Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of noncontiguous memory allocation.

What will be an ideal response?


The primary advantage is that jobs can run even if their memory requirement exceeds
the size of the largest available free memory area.The primary disadvantage is the increased
cost and complexity of the hardware and the operating system.A key theme of the text is
that operating system management strategies are shifting to favor responsiveness and userfriendliness
rather than trying to achieve the greatest possible resource utilization.

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Which of the following would be an appropriate loop header when reading data from a file to fill an array defined by:

float grades[MAX]; a) for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) b) for (int i = 0; i < MAX –1; i++) c) while (!fileIn.eof( )) d) while (!fileIn.eof( ) && i < MAX)

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In the figure above, if you wanted the right margin larger than the left margin you would ____.

A. enter a larger number under right margin B. enter a larger number under horizontal margin C. drag the right margin visual aid D. drag the left margin visual aid

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A(n) ____________________ is a set of data represented by a single variable name.

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

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What is a directed path?

What will be an ideal response?

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