Digital Electronics Principles and Applications Chapter 11 - Memories Questions with Correct Answers
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What can bulk storage devices be classified as? - Answers Magnetic, optical, mechanical, or
semiconductor (MOMS)
What is the CPU and what does it contain? - Answers Central processing unit, which contains the
control, arithmetic, and logic (CAL) sections.
What flows only FROM CPUs? - Answers Address bus and control bus lines
What is a bus? - Answers Group of parallel conductors whose job it is to transfer information to other
parts of the computer or microprocessor.
What are the address bus and control bus? - Answers One-way communication lines that tell Memory,
storage, and other peripheral devices who does what and when.
What is a data bus? - Answers A two-way communication channel for sending information to and
receiving information from memory, storage, and other peripheral devices.
What does the data flowing into RAM and NVRAM through the data bus represent? - Answers To write
in memory
What does the data flowing out of RAM and NVRAM through the data bus represent? - Answers To read
from memory
What does NVRAM stand for? - Answers Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
What does ROM stand for? - Answers Read Only Memory
What does RAM stand for? - Answers Random Access Memory
What are the three common internal semiconductor memory devices used in computers? - Answers
NVRAM, RAM, and ROM.
Name a critical difference between ROM and the other memory devices, RAM, and NVRAM. - Answers
ROM is permanently programmed and data can only flow out of the semiconductor device.
What devices can be substituted for the ROM in a computer system? - Answers PROMs or EPROMs
Name 4 bulk storage devices that are magnetic. - Answers Magnetic tape, Floppy drive, Super disk drive,
and Hard drive (Magnets Fail So Hard)
Name 2 groups of optical bulk storage devices. - Answers CD-ROM/DVD drive (1) and CR-R and CD-RW
drive
Name a semiconductor bulk storage device - Answers Flash drive
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What can bulk storage devices be classified as? - Answers Magnetic, optical, mechanical, or
semiconductor (MOMS)
What is the CPU and what does it contain? - Answers Central processing unit, which contains the
control, arithmetic, and logic (CAL) sections.
What flows only FROM CPUs? - Answers Address bus and control bus lines
What is a bus? - Answers Group of parallel conductors whose job it is to transfer information to other
parts of the computer or microprocessor.
What are the address bus and control bus? - Answers One-way communication lines that tell Memory,
storage, and other peripheral devices who does what and when.
What is a data bus? - Answers A two-way communication channel for sending information to and
receiving information from memory, storage, and other peripheral devices.
What does the data flowing into RAM and NVRAM through the data bus represent? - Answers To write
in memory
What does the data flowing out of RAM and NVRAM through the data bus represent? - Answers To read
from memory
What does NVRAM stand for? - Answers Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
What does ROM stand for? - Answers Read Only Memory
What does RAM stand for? - Answers Random Access Memory
What are the three common internal semiconductor memory devices used in computers? - Answers
NVRAM, RAM, and ROM.
Name a critical difference between ROM and the other memory devices, RAM, and NVRAM. - Answers
ROM is permanently programmed and data can only flow out of the semiconductor device.
What devices can be substituted for the ROM in a computer system? - Answers PROMs or EPROMs
Name 4 bulk storage devices that are magnetic. - Answers Magnetic tape, Floppy drive, Super disk drive,
and Hard drive (Magnets Fail So Hard)
Name 2 groups of optical bulk storage devices. - Answers CD-ROM/DVD drive (1) and CR-R and CD-RW
drive
Name a semiconductor bulk storage device - Answers Flash drive
