NCQs: $[10$ Marks$]$

The $$ stores data.

A$.$ system bus

B$.$ I$/$O

C$.$ main memory

D$.$ control unit

Computer technology is changing at a $$ pace.

A$.$ slow

B$.$ slow to medium

C$.$ rapid

D$.$ non$-$existent

Locality of $$ has a profound influence on both the organization of memory and on operating system memory management software.

A$.$ instruction

B$.$ reference

C$.$ hierarchy

D$.$ access

of the computer.

memory is the principal internal memory system

A$.$ Secondary

B$.$ Cache

C$.$ Register

D$.$ Main

A sequence of codes or instructions is called

A$.$ software

B$.$ memory

C$.$ an interconnect

D$.$ a register

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

A$.$ system bus

address bus

C$.$ data bus

D$.$ control bus

A is the high$-$level set of rules for exchanglng packets of data between devices.

A$.$ bus

B$.$ protocol

C$.$ packet

D$.$ QPI

The QPI layer is used to determine the course that a packet will traverse across the available system interconnects.

A$.$ link

B$.$ protocol

C$.$ routing

D$.$ physical

Consider two microprocessors having $8-$ and $16-$bit$-$wide external data buses, respectively. The two processors are identical otherwise and their bus cycles take just as long. Suppose all instructions and operands are two bytes long. By what factor do the maximum data transfer rates differ?