Practice - Concepts of Virtual Memory: Paging, Segmentation, and Memory Management Units (MMUs)
Practice Questions
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What is virtual memory?
💡 Hint: Think about how modern programs run on computers with limited RAM.
What does a page table do?
💡 Hint: Consider how memory knows where to find data.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does virtual memory allow programs to do?
💡 Hint: Think about how programs run when memory is constrained.
True or False: Segmentation divides memory into fixed-sized pages.
💡 Hint: Recall the definition and characteristics of segmentation.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a logical address and a page table, describe how an MMU translates this address into a physical address.
💡 Hint: Break down the steps in mapping logical to physical addresses.
Analyze how paging could lead to internal fragmentation and provide an example scenario.
💡 Hint: Consider how memory allocation impacts what’s stored in each page.
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