CS350 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exception Handling, Virtual Memory, The Algorithm
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Cs 350 - fall 2011 midterm - sample solution. Number of exam pages (including this cover sheet) Please make your answers as concise as possible. You do not need to ll the whole space provided for answers. Write t or f next to each of the following statements, to indicate whether it is true or false: (1 mark) threads of a process share the same address space. T: (1 mark) external fragmentation cannot happen when using paging to manage virtual memory. T: (1 mark) the behaviour of a binary semaphore is identical to the behaviour of a lock. F: (1 mark) for a deadlock to occur, there must be a cycle of processes waiting for each other. T: (1 mark) the purpose of the tlb is to place the contents of the most frequently accessed page frames in the l2 cache of the cpu.
