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2. Micro-Operations 3-5
6. IO Organization 17-20
the memory can be accessed? Q.24 A CPU has 16-bit address bus and 8-
Note : Consider memory as byte bits data bus. The maximum size of
addressable. memory supported by the system is?
(A) 500 Bytes / Sec Q.25 When the power supply of ROM is
switched off, its content?
(B) 2000 Bytes / Sec
(A) Become all zeros
(C) 2 Mbytes / Sec
(B) Become all ones
(D) 2 GBytes / Sec
(C) Remain Same
Q.18 The address bus width of a memory of
(D) Become Garbage (Unpredictable)
size 4096×8 bits is?
Q.26 Statement 1 : Static RAM memory
(A) 10 (B) 11
devices retain data for as long as power
(C) 12 (D) 13
is supplied.
Q.19 A memory M is defined as number of
Statement 2 : Statis RAM is used when
words multiplied by the number the size of read/write memory required
of bits per word. The number of is large
Q.60 The multilevel memory hierarchy is Q.63 Consider a cache with 2 blocks of size
given. 32Bytes each. The CPU generates
address of 32-bits. The cache
The hit ratio of L1, L2, L3 and main
controller stores 1 valid bit, 1 modified
memory are 0.8, 0.9, 0.95 and 1.0
respectively. bit and tag-bits for each metadata
entry. The cache controller has a
The access times of respective
maximum memory of 18Kbytes to store
memories are 10ns, 10ns, 50ns and
the metadata. The cache is organized
500ns. Among total memory references
as k-way set associative. Maximum
60% of them are for data.