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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is virtual memory?
💡 Hint: Think about how it manages the perceived memory size.
Define demand paging.
💡 Hint: What is the opposite of this method?
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What does virtual memory allow a system to do?
💡 Hint: Think about the dependencies between memory and applications.
A page fault occurs when:
💡 Hint: This is a key behavior of memory management.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
If a system has 4GB of RAM and a program requires 10GB of memory to run, how can virtual memory enable this program to execute?
💡 Hint: Consider how the OS allocates segments of memory.
Discuss how page replacement algorithms might affect the performance of a virtual memory system in a scenario with high demand.
💡 Hint: Think about which pages are kept or replaced based on usage.
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