Chapter 2-4

Question 1

allows physical memory location to be assigned to any linear address (80386 and above)

Answer 1

memory paging mechanism

Question 2

address generated by a program

Answer 2

linear address

Question 3

actual memory location accessed by a program

Answer 3

physical address

Question 4

controlled by the contents of the microprocessor’s control registers

Answer 4

paging unit

Question 5

Linear address > converted > physical address

Answer 5

PG = 1

Question 6

PG = 1

Answer 6

Linear address > converted > physical address

Question 7

Linear address > becomes > physical address to access memory

Answer 7

PG = 0

Question 8

Enumerate the 3 linear address sections

Answer 8

Page directory entry,
Page table entry,
Memory page offset address

Question 9

TLB meaning

Answer 9

Translation look-aside buffer

Question 10

A special type of cache

Answer 10

Translation look-aside buffer / TLB

Question 11

What the DOS system and EMM386.EXE use to redefine the area of memory between locations C8000H–EFFFFH as upper memory blocks

Answer 11

Page tables