Question

The operating system and the other processes are protected from being modified by an already running process because ____________

(a) they are in different memory spaces

(b) they are in different logical addresses

(c) they have a protection algorithm

(d) every address generated by the CPU is being checked against the relocation and limit registers

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This question is from Memory Management topic in chapter Memory Management of Operating System

Answer 1

The correct answer is (d) every address generated by the CPU is being checked against the relocation and limit registers

Easy explanation - None.