A page fault
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A page fault
- A.
Occurs when a program accesses an available page on memory
- B.
is an error in a specific page
- C.
is a reference to a page belonging to another program
- D.
occurs when a program accesses a page not currently in memory
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Correct answer: D
A page fault occurs when a program accesses a memory address that is not currently loaded into physical RAM. The operating system handles this by loading the required page from disk into memory before resuming execution.
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