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A page fault

A. is an error is a specific page

B. occurs when a program accesses a page of memory

C. is an access to a page not currently in memory

D. is a reference to a page belonging to another program

E. None of the above

Answer: Option C

Solution(By Examveda Team)

A page fault (sometimes called #PF, PF or hard fault) is a type of exception raised by computer hardware when a running program accesses a memory page that is not currently mapped by the memory management unit (MMU) into the virtual address space of a process.

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