80286-80287-A Microprocessor with Memory Management and Protection

This set of MCQs helps students to learn about a microprocessor with memory management which is the process of controlling and coordinating computer memory, assigning portions called blocks to various running programs to optimize overall system performance. and protection defined as a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems. The main purpose of memory protection is to prevent a process from accessing memory that has not been allocated to it.

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A task with privilege level 0, doesn’t refer to all the lower level privilege descriptors in

GDT (global descriptor table) LDT (local descriptor table) IDT (interrupt descriptor table) None of the mentioned

The 80286 is able to address the physical memory of,

8 MB

16 MB

24 MB

64 MB

The 80286 is able to operate with the clock frequency of,

12.5 MHz

10 MHz

8 MHz

All of the mentioned

The management of the memory system required to ensure the smooth execution of the running process is done by,

Control unit

Memory

Memory management unit

Bus interface unit

The fetching of the program from secondary memory to place it in physical memory, during the execution of CPU is called

Mapping

Swapping in

Swapping out

Pipelining

The process of making the physical memory free by storing the portion of program and partial results in the secondary storage called,

Mapping

Swapping in

Swapping out

Pipelining

The memory management and protection mechanisms are disabled when the 80286 is operated in,

Normal mode

Real address mode

Virtual address mode

All of the mentioned

By using a privilege mechanism the protection from unauthorized accesses is done to,

Operating system

Interrupt handlers

System software

All of the mentioned

The task privilege level at the instant of execution is called,

Descriptor privilege level (DPL)

Current privilege level (CPL)

Effective privilege level (EPL)

None of the mentioned

Once the CPL is selected, it can be changed by

Hold

Transferring control using system descriptors

Transferring control using gate descriptors

Transferring control using interrupt descriptors

The memory that is considered as a large logical memory space, that is not available physically is

Logical memory

Auxiliary memory

Imaginary memory

Virtual memory

Memory management deals with:

Data protection

Unauthorized access prevention

Segmented memory

All of the mentioned

The memory management and protection mechanisms are enabled with advanced instruction set when 80286 is operated in,

Normal mode

Real address mode

Virtual address mode

All of the mentioned

The 80286 is an upward object code compatible with 8086 or 8088 when operated in,

Normal mode

Real address mode

Virtual address mode

Real and virtual address mode

The data segments defined in GDT (global descriptor table) and the LDT (local descriptor table) can be accessed by a task with,

Privilege level 0

Privilege level 1

Privilege level 2

Privilege level 3

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: 80286-80287-A Microprocessor with Memory Management and Protection
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Steve