Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering

Q1:

The register or main memory location which contains the effective address of the operand is known as

A pointer

B indexed register

C special location

D scratch pad

E None of the above

ANS:A - pointer

Effective address is the address where the actual or required data is stored in Memory, because the register or main memory location which contains the address of the actual or required data can be call as the pointer of effective address.