Practice - Combinations of Events
Enroll to start learning
You’ve not yet enrolled in this course. Please enroll for free to listen to audio lessons, classroom podcasts and take practice test.
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a program needs data that’s not in RAM.
What does a valid bit indicate?
💡 Hint: Think about how it relates to the page table.
4 more questions available
Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What happens during a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what action the OS takes when the page is not available.
True or False: When a TLB hit occurs, we always access the page table.
💡 Hint: Consider how caching optimizes memory access.
Get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
In a programming environment, if the effective instruction time with page faults every 10 instructions is 2 ms and 5 ms respectively, what is the effective time per instruction?
💡 Hint: Utilize the average formula for timing calculations.
Consider a scenario where you experience a TLB hit followed by a cache miss. Explain the steps the OS would go through to resolve this and the potential performance impact.
💡 Hint: Focus on the interaction between TLB, page table, and cache.
Get performance evaluation
Reference links
Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.