NIELIT 2016 DEC Scientist B (CS) - Section B: 50

Question

Where does the swap reside?

• A. RAM
• B. ROM
• C. DISK
• D. On-chip cache

Answer 1

Option C

Swap reside at disk

Answer 2

Option C.

A swap file is a space on a hard disk used as the virtual memory extension of a computer's real memory (RAM). Having a swap file allows your computer's operating system to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually do.

Source: https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/definition/swap-file-swap-space-or-pagefile

Answer 3

Swap space reside in HDD means when a swap is going on, it transfer data from HDD to Main memory and vice -versa.

Answer 4

Swap resides at Disk.