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A __________ contains a permanent pattern of data that cannot be changed, is
nonvolatile, and cannot have new data written into it.
A. RAM
B. SRAM
C. ROM
D. flash memory
_________ can be caused by power supply problems or alpha particles.
A. Soft errors
B. AGT errors
C. Hard errors
D. SEC errors
The processing required for a single instruction is called a(n) __________ cycle.
A. execute
B. fetch
C. instruction
D. packet
A kernel typically will have few to no branching statements.
________ threading involves the selective use of fine-grain threading for some systems
and single threading for other systems.
One of the most widely used forms of DRAM is the _________ DRAM.
In a _________ system multiple users simultaneously access the system through
terminals, with the OS interleaving the execution of each user program in a short burst
or quantum of computation.
Negative powers of 10 are used to represent the positions of the numbers for decimal
fractions.
A __________ is one in which the most significant digit of the significand is nonzero.
A ________ is defined to be the time it takes to fetch two operands from registers,
perform an ALU operation, and store the result in a register.
The term SMP refers to a computer hardware architecture and also to the operating
system behavior that reflects that architecture.
Events in the digital computer are synchronized to a clock pulse so that changes occur
only when a clock pulse occurs.
The major cost in the life cycle of a system is hardware.
A new version of SDRAM, referred to as __________, can send data twice per clock
cycle, once on the rising edge of the clock pulse and once on the falling edge.
Each line of a microprogramming language describes a set of micro-operations
occurring at one time and is known as a ________.
Almost all RISC instructions use simple register addressing.
Most machines provide the basic arithmetic operations of add, subtract, multiply, and
divide.
The _________ disk is a small, flexible platter and the least expensive type of disk.
One of the traditional ways of describing processor architecture is in terms of the
number of addresses contained in each instruction.
A Boolean function can be realized in the sum of products (SOP) form but not in the
product of sums (POS) form.
One byte equals __________ bits.
A sequence of instructions is known as a ___________, or firmware.
The technique where memory is expanded to hold three, four, or more programs and
switch among all of them is __________, (or multitasking).
