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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about memory and data access.
Question 2
Easy
Why do we use page tables?
💡 Hint: Consider their role in virtual memory management.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What triggers a page fault?
- When a page is accessed in main memory
- When a virtual page is absent in RAM
- When data is incorrectly read
💡 Hint: Consider what conditions must exist for a page fault to happen.
Question 2
True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to better performance.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Think about the potential trade-offs in memory management.
Solve 1 more question and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Consider a system where a process needs to access 16KB of data but has a page size of 8KB. How many pages will be fetched, and what implications does this have for performance?
💡 Hint: Think about how total data size relates to page size.
Question 2
How might the strategy of using larger page sizes backfire in a multi-tasking environment with numerous processes? Discuss the potential issues.
💡 Hint: Consider the balance of memory allocation in a shared environment.
Challenge and get performance evaluation