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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What occurs during a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between virtual memory and physical memory.
Question 2
Easy
What does a valid bit of 0 signify?
💡 Hint: Reflect on how operating systems track memory status.
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 action does the OS take during a page fault?
- Aborts the process
- Loads the page from disk
- Ignores the fault
💡 Hint: Think about the OS's responsibility.
Question 2
True or False: A TLB hit occurs when the required address mapping is found.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Contextualize with examples of memory access.
Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Explain how a system would operate if it experiences a high frequency of page faults. What strategies could be implemented to mitigate this?
💡 Hint: Consider the effects of disk latency.
Question 2
Given an instruction cycle time of 3ms when no page faults occur and 50ms when they do, calculate the effective cycle time for 20 instructions if 3 incur page faults.
💡 Hint: Think about the contribution of both hit and miss cycles.
Challenge and get performance evaluation