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Operating Systems · Quiz 1 · 23 Feb 2025 · January 2025 term

Question 8: Consider a system with 128 MB of physical memory and a 32…

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Consider a system with 128 MB of physical memory and a 32-bit virtual address space. Given a page size of 8 KB, what will be the number of frames?

  1. A

    2¹⁶ frames

  2. B

    2¹⁵ frames

  3. C

    2¹³ frames

  4. D

    2¹⁷ frames

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  • C

    2¹³ frames

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Question 8 of 19 in the IIT Madras BS Operating Systems (Operating Systems) Quiz 1 paper sat on 23 Feb 2025, in the January 2025 term (IIT M IMPROVEMENT AN EXAM QIM2 23 Feb 2025). It carries 4 marks.

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