Multiple choice

_______ refers to the duration of the additional operations performed by a given memory management scheme in accessing memory.

  1. Wasted memory

  2. Time complexity

  3. Memory access overhead

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Memory access overhead correctly describes the extra time spent on memory management operations like address translation, protection checks, and page table walks. Time complexity refers to algorithm analysis, while wasted memory refers to space inefficiency.