Practice Addressing Memory (20.4.1) - Main Memory - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What does RAM stand for?
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Think about temporary storage in computers.
Question 2.
Name one example of external memory.
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Consider where files are kept for later use.
3Question 3.
What is the role of the address bus?
- To send data to the CPU
- To carry addresses from the CPU to memory
- To store data
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Think about what kind of information is sent over this bus.
4Question 4.
True or False: ROM is a type of volatile memory.
- True
- False
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Consider what happens to data in ROM without power.
Question 5.
Given a computer system with 32-bit addressing, how many unique memory addresses can the system access?
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Use the equation 2^n, where n is the number of bits.
Question 6.
How would increasing the cache size benefit a CPU's performance?
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Think about how often the CPU needs to fetch data from slower memory.

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