Practice How It Works (6.1.1.1) - Memory Management Strategies II - Virtual Memory
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Question 1 Easy

What is virtual memory?

💡 Hint: Think about how it manages the perceived memory size.

Question 2 Easy

Define demand paging.

💡 Hint: What is the opposite of this method?

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Question 1

What does virtual memory allow a system to do?

Increase RAM
Simulate additional RAM
Decrease RAM

💡 Hint: Think about the dependencies between memory and applications.

Question 2

A page fault occurs when:

True
False

💡 Hint: This is a key behavior of memory management.

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Challenge 1 Hard

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.

Challenge 2 Hard

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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