System Administrator 2026
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What is the advantage of dynamic loading?
  • A. A used routine is used multiple times
  • B. An unused routine is never loaded
  • C. Cpu utilization increases
  • D. All of the mentioned
The idea of overlays is to ____________
  • A. Data that are needed at any given time
  • B. Enable a process to be larger than the amount of memory allocated to it
  • C. Keep in memory only those instructions
  • D. All of the mentioned
The ___________ must design and program the overlay structure.
  • A. Programmer
  • B. System architect
  • C. System designer
  • D. None of the mentioned
The ___________ swaps processes in and out of the memory.
  • A. Memory manager
  • B. Cpu
  • C. Cpu manager
  • D. User
In a system that does not support swapping ____________
  • A. The compiler normally binds symbolic addresses (variables) to relocatable addresses
  • B. The compiler normally binds symbolic addresses to physical addresses
  • C. The loader binds relocatable addresses to physical addresses
  • D. Binding of symbolic addresses to physical addresses normally takes place during execution
What is the operating system?
  • A. In the low memory
  • B. In the high memory
  • C. Either low or high memory (depending on the location of interrupt vector)
  • D. None of the mentioned
In contiguous memory allocation ____________
  • A. Each process is contained in a single contiguous section of memory
  • B. All processes are contained in a single contiguous section of memory
  • C. The memory space is contiguous
  • D. None of the mentioned
The relocation register helps in ____________
  • A. Providing more address space to processes
  • B. A different address space to processes
  • C. To protect the address spaces of processes
  • D. None of the mentioned