What interrupt occurs when a program accesses unmapped allocated memory?
AStack spill
BBuffer leak
CClock tick
DPage fault
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Page fault
A page fault interrupt signals the kernel to adjust virtual memory mappings for requested data.
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