Computer Concepts Module 4 Practice Exam

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Which of the following terms refers to the area of the hard drive used for virtual memory?

Cache

Swap file

Virtual memory extends RAM by moving pages between memory and disk when RAM gets full. The part of the hard drive set aside for this swapping is the swap file. Cache is used to speed up data access and isn’t the storage area used for virtual memory. RAM is the actual physical memory, not disk storage. In Windows this on-disk area is called the page file, but the broader term for the on-disk space used for swapping is swap file—the key idea being the disk space that holds pages moved out of RAM.

RAM

Page file