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What is a page fault ?

  • is an spelling error in a page in memory
  • is a reference to a page which is in another program
  • is an access to a page not currently in memory
  • always occurs whenever a page is accessed
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1. Supervisor state is only allowed to ?

  • Utility Softwares
  • Application Softwares
  • Operating System
  • Guest User

2. Belady anomaly occurs in ?

  • LIFO
  • FIFO
  • LRU
  • NRU

3. Which of following is not an advantage of multiprogramming ?

  • increased throughput
  • shorter response time
  • ability to assign priorities of jobs
  • decreased system overload

4. Which is not a function of Kernel ?

  • Process management
  • Memory management
  • File system management
  • Interrupt handling
  • All of Above

5. Seek analysis is for ?

  • Paging issues
  • device busy problems
  • control unit busy problems
  • all of above
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