CEA201 FE FALL 2023

One distinguishing characteristic of memory that is designated as ___ is that it is possible both to read data from the memory and to write new data into the memory easily and rapidly.

• EPROM

• EEPROM

• RAM

• ROM

Interrupt processing allows an application program to be suspended in order that a variety of interrupt conditions can be serviced and later resumed.

• A. True

• B. False

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

• read

• control

• test

• write

The processor needs to store instructions and data temporarily while an instruction is being executed.

• A. True

• B. False

The L1 cache is slower than the L3 cache

• A. True

• B. False

Program execution consists of repeating the process of instruction fetch and instruction execution.

• A. True

• B. False

___ has the advantage of flexibility, but the disadvantage of complexity.

• Direct addressing

• Displacement addressing

• Register addressing

• Stack addressing Next

The operation ___ yields true if either or both of its operands are true.

• NAND

• AND

• NOT

• OR

The ___ stores data

• control unit

• . I/O

• system bus

• main memory

The advantages of ___ addressing are that only a small address field is needed in the instruction and no time-consuming memory references are required.

• direct

• register

• displacement

• indirect