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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 what happens when a virtual address is accessed but not found.
Question 2
Easy
Why do we prefer larger page sizes in systems?
💡 Hint: Consider how much data we can load at once.
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 happens during a page fault?
- The data is fetched from main memory.
- The data is fetched from secondary storage.
- The data remains inaccessible.
💡 Hint: Consider where data is stored when not found in immediate memory.
Question 2
True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to more efficient memory use.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Think about what happens if a process doesn't use all the allocated space.
Solve 1 more question and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
You have a process requiring 22KB of data. If your page size is 8KB, how many pages do you need, and what is the internal fragmentation?
💡 Hint: Consider how full the last page is.
Question 2
Describe how the use of large page sizes may affect different types of users such as gamers versus embedded system developers.
💡 Hint: Think about the context of performance versus efficiency.
Challenge and get performance evaluation