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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: Consider what happens when a program needs data that’s not in RAM.
Question 2
Easy
What does a valid bit indicate?
💡 Hint: Think about how it relates to the page table.
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 OS aborts the process
- The page is loaded from disk
- The data is accessed directly from RAM
💡 Hint: Think about what action the OS takes when the page is not available.
Question 2
True or False: When a TLB hit occurs, we always access the page table.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Consider how caching optimizes memory access.
Solve and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
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.
Question 2
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.
Challenge and get performance evaluation