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Operating Systems
Q13 / 100
What is a page fault?
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The correct answer is B) An interrupt raised when a process accesses a virtual page not currently in physical memory
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Correct Answer
An interrupt raised when a process accesses a virtual page not currently in physical memory
Explanation
A page fault triggers the OS page fault handler, which loads the missing page from disk into a physical frame, possibly evicting another page.
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