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What is the difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?

Answer

Main memory - only large storage media that the CPU can access directly.

Secondary storage - extension of main memory that provides large nonvolatile storage capacity.

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While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?

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diskcopy

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Name 5 different addressing modes?

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Immediate, Direct, Register, Register indirect, Implied addressing modes.

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Why paging is used?

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Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which is to permit the logical address space of a process to be noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating physical memory wherever the latter is available.

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What are turnaround time and response time?

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Turnaround time is the interval between the submission of a job and its completion. Response time is the interval between submission of a request, and the first response to that request.

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What is the difference between, page directive include, action tag include?

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One difference is while using the include page directive, in translation time it is creating two servelts. But, while using the include action tag, in translation time it is creating only one servlet.

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What is a deadlock?

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Deadlock is a situation where a group of processes are all blocked and none of them can become unblocked until one of the other becomes unblocked. The simplest deadlock is two processes each of which is waiting for a message from the other.

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What is multicast routing?

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Sending a message to a group is called multicasting, and its routing algorithm is called multicast routing

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Subject: Networking
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