Multiple choice

What is the process of moving a process from main memory to hard disk called?

  1. Scheduling

  2. Caching

  3. Swapping

  4. Polling

  5. Spooling

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C Correct answer
Explanation

A process needs to be in memory to be executed. A process, however, can be swapped temporarily out of memory to a backing store on disk and then brought back into memory for continued execution. It is a memory management scheme.