Beginner 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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