5-32. What cache process is performed by a requestor
other than the CPU within?
1. Main
2. Mapping
3. Eavesdrop
4. Searching
IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS 5-33 THROUGH 5-36,
SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST THE
CACHE MAPPING TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED IN
EACH QUESTION.
5-33.
5-34.
5-35.
5-36.
5-37.
5-38.
5-39.
1. Direct mapping
2. Fully associative mapping
3. Set associative mapping
Is the most flexible cache mapping technique
with regards to where data can reside.
Combines the best cache mapping techniques.
Main memory locations can only be copied into
one location in cache.
If cache is full, a replacement algorithm is used
to decide which block gets replaced by new data.
What cache read method can be used to present
the cache and main memory with the reference
simultaneously?
1. Look-aside, serial read
2. Look-aside, parallel read
3. Look-through, serial read
4. Look-through, parallel read
In a look-through read, the cache is checked last.
1. True
2. False
Optimum cache replacement would be psychic
and have perfect knowledge of the future. What
cache replacement policy, if any, comes closest
to the optimum cache replacement?
1. LRU
2. FIFO
3. Random
4. None, all are very different
5-40. Instruction routines in a ROM are considered to
have which of the following characteristics?
1. Permanent and volatile
2. Permanent and nonvolatile
3. Temporary and volatile
4. Temporary and nonvolatile
5-41. Permanent software loaded as firmware is the
process known by which of the following terms?
1. Boot
2. Bootstrap
3. Boot up
4. Each of the above
5-42. An NDRO in a militarized mainframe or
minicomputer is usually located in which of the
following places?
1. In the CPU module
2. In the chassis that contains CPUs pcbs
3. Either 1 or 2 above, depending on whether it
is a mini or mainframe computer
4. On one or more IC chips of a CPU/memory
p c b
5-43. Diagnostics programs on an NDRO include all of
the following items except which one?
1. Test the timer
2. Load failure analysis
3. Memory and interface tests
4. Computer interconnection system
IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS 5-44 THROUGH 5-47,
SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST THE AREA
OF A BIOS DESCRIBED IN EACH QUESTION
5-44.
5-45.
5-46.
1. Diagnostic testing
2. Environmental inventory
3. Boot procedure
Testing the video, interrupt controller, CPU
register and flags, or the keyboard.
A prompt is displayed to let you know the
microcomputer is ready to use.
The ROM chip program searches for the
operating system files.
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