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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2015

Share-based Compensation [Abstract]

Allocated Share-based compensation expense disclosure

The impact on our results for share-based compensation was as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	January 31,
	2015				2014
	(in millions)
Cost of products and services	$	4			$	4
Research and development	4				3
Selling, general and administrative	21				10
Total share-based compensation expense	$	29			$	17

Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award fair value assumptions and methodology schedule

The following assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of employee stock options and LTP Program grants.

	Three Months Ended
	January 31,
	2015			2014
Stock Option Plans:
Weighted average risk-free interest rate	1.6	%		1.7	%
Dividend yield	—	%		1	%
Weighted average volatility	31	%		39	%
Expected life	4.8 years			5.8 years
LTP Program
Volatility of Keysight shares	26	%		—	%
Volatility of selected peer-company shares	17%-67%			—	%
Price-wise correlation with selected peers	38	%		—	%

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- Definition

Disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which share-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from share-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from share-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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Tabular disclosure of the allocation of equity-based compensation costs to a given line item on the balance sheet and income statement for the period. This may include the reporting line for the costs and the amount capitalized and expensed.

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