Multiple choice

Wasting of memory within a partition is called ________ fragmentation.

  1. internal

  2. external

  3. universal

  4. none of these
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Explanation

Internal fragmentation occurs when a memory partition is allocated to a process but the process doesn't use the entire block. The unused portion within the partition is wasted and cannot be allocated to other processes. This happens in fixed-size partition schemes.

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