IT600 Module 4 - Virtual Memory

4-2 Short Paper Virtual Memory

IT 600 Module Four Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

For this assignment, you will search the Internet to find TWO tutorials on virtual memory as it is used in modern workstations, servers, or mobile devices. The tutorials you choose can be in written form or videos similar to the Messer (2012)  video  included in this module’s instructional resources.

Prompt

In your paper, you will compare the tutorials you identified. Explain which tutorial you preferred based upon how it helped you answer the following questions:

1. How does virtual memory extend the memory available to applications?

2. What are the drawbacks of a page fault when a virtual memory page is not resident?

The critical elements for this paper are:

1. The answers to the above questions

2. A comparison of the information in the two tutorials

3. A description of the tutorial that best helped you answer those questions and why you preferred it

4. Any challenges you are having with understanding virtual memory. If you are having difficulty, you can simply write a paragraph or two about any areas of virtual memory you still do not understand and your plan for how you will master those areas. If you are confident in what you have learned, use that portion of your paper to talk about any benefits of virtual memory you found.

What to Submit

Your paper must be submitted as a two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least two sources cited in APA format.