cea part 9

The _________ command causes the I/O module to take an item of data from the data bus and subsequently transmit that data item to the peripheral.

• control

• test

• read

• write

The ________ command is used to activate a peripheral and tell it what to do.

• control

• test

• read

• write

________ is when the DMA module must force the processor to suspend operation temporarily.

• Interrupt

• Thunderbolt

• Cycle stealing

• Lock down

The 8237 DMA is known as a _________ DMA controller.

• command

• cycle stealing

• interrupt

• fly-by

________ is a digital display interface standard now widely adopted for computer monitors, laptop displays, and other graphics and video interfaces.

• DisplayPort

• PCI Express

• Thunderbolt

• InfiniBand

The ________ layer is the key to the operation of Thunderbolt and what makes it attractive as a high-speed peripheral I/O technology.

• cable

• application

• common transport

• physical

The Thunderbolt protocol _________ layer is responsible for link maintenance including hot-plug detection and data encoding to provide highly efficient data transfer.

• cable

• application

• common transport

• physical

The ________ contains I/O protocols that are mapped on to the transport layer.

• cable

• application

• common transport

• physical

A ________ is used to connect storage systems, routers, and other peripheral devices to an InfiniBand switch.

• target channel adapter

• InfiniBand switch

• host channel adapter

• subnet

A ________ connects InfiniBand subnets, or connects an InfiniBand switch to a network such as a local area network, wide area network, or storage area network

• memory controller

• TCA

• HCA

• router