Question

Any program, no matter how small, occupies an entire partition.  This is called ____________

(a) fragmentation

(b) prior fragmentation

(c) internal fragmentation

(d) external fragmentation

I had been asked this question in an international level competition.

Question is taken from Memory Management in portion Operating Systems of Computer Fundamentals

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) internal fragmentation

The best explanation: It is called as internal fragmentation. Main memory use is inefficient.  Any program, no matter how small, occupies an entire partition.  This is called internal fragmentation.