Final Fall 2021

A bus that connects major computer components (processor, memory, I/O) is called a ...

• A. System bus

• B. Address bus

• C. Data bus

• D. Control bus

The System Bus is made of ...

• A. Control bus

• B. Address bus

• C. Both Control bus and Address bus

• D. Control bus, Data bus and Address bus

• E. Data bus

Data are transferred to and from the disk in ...

• A. Track

• B. Gaps

• C. Sectors

• D. Pits

The unary operation ... inverts the value of its operand

• A. OR

• B. NOT

• C. NAND

• D. XOR

In a ..., binary values are stored using traditional flip-flop logic-gate configurations.

• A. ROM

• B. SRAM

• C. DRAM

• D. RAM

Timing refers to the way in which events are coordinated on the bus.

• A. True

• B. False

When using ... technique, all write operations are made to main memory as well as to the cache, ensuring that main memory is always valid.

• A. Write back

• B. LRU

• C. Write through

• D. Unified cache

The principal advantage of ... addressing is that it is a very simple form of addresssing.

• A. Displacement

• B. Register

• C. Stack

• D. Direct

Magnetic disks are the foundation of external memory on virtually all computer systems

• A. True

• B. False

Which properties do all semiconductor memeory cells share?

• A. They exhibit two stable states which can be used to represent binary 1 and 0.

• B. They are capable of being written into set the state.

• C. They are capable of being read to sense the state.

• D. All of above