The method of calculating the EA is the same for both base-register addressing and indexing

The _______ holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched.

_______ are a set of storage locations.

Interfaces between the computer and peripherals is an example of an organizational attribute

Which of the following memory types are nonvolatile ?

A _______ disk is permanently mounted in the disk drive, such as the hard disk in a personal computer.

A(n) ________ is generated by a failure such as power failure or memory parity error.

The _______ determines the opcode and the operand specifiers.

I/O channels are commonly seen on microcomputers whereas I/O controllers are used on mainframes.

All DRAMS requires a refresh operation.

The performance of the cache memory is measured in terms of a quality called _________

The ______ consists of the access time plus any additional time required before a second commence.

The data lines provide a path for moving data among system modules and are collectively called the _____

The basic functions of a computer is to execute programs.

An I/O device is referred to as a ________.

An I/O module must recognize one unique address for each peripheral it controls

Cycle stealing is/are used in which concept?

With direct addressing, the length of the address field is usually less than the word length, thus limiting the address range.

What is stored in the Stack Pointer?

The ______ interprets the instructions in memory and causes them to be executed.

_______ is when the disk rotates more slowly for accesses near the outer edge than those near the center

The correspondence between the main memory blocks and those in the cache is specified by a _______

The routine executed in response to an interrupt request is called _____ routine

The ______ controls the movement of data and instructions into and out of the processor.

Counters can be designated as _______

The method of using the same lines for multiple purposes is known as time multiplexing

________ registers may be used only to hold data and cannot be employed in the calculation of address

The ______ defines the system call interface to the operating system and the hardware resources and services available in a system through the user instruction set architecture.

The predict-never-taken approach is the most popular of all the branch prediction methods.

Both batch multiprogramming and time sharing use multiprogramming

The instruction location immediately following the delayed branch is referred to as the ________

Architectural attributes include ______

Second generations computer used ________

A common of system interconnection is by means of a _______

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

The register files employs much shorter addresses than addresses for cache and memory

Because data are striped in very small strips, RAID 3 cannot achieve very high data transfer rates

______ is a principle by which two variables are independent of each other

With a batch operating system the user does not have direct access to the processor

When using graph coloring, nodes that share the same color cannot be assigned to the same register.

The most important system program is the OS.

Three of the most common uses of stack addressing are relative addressing, base-register addressing, and indexing.

The unary operation ______ inverts the value of its operand.

Consider a magnetic disk drive with 4 surfaces, 512 tracks per surface, and 32 sectors per track, a sector is 512 byte. What is the disk capacity ?

The cache is capable of handling global as well as local variables.

A number of chips can be grouped together to form a memory bank.

The ABI is the boundary between hardware and software.