Cins 220 Ch. 7

Front 1

In SDRAM, what does the S represent?

Back 1

Synchronus

Front 2

Where are programs stored when they are not running?

Back 2

Hard drive

Front 3

When the user loads a program, where is it copied before it is run?

Back 3

RAM

Front 4

What unit is used to measure the capacity of RAM?

Back 4

Byte

Front 5

Which of the following is a mass storage device?

Back 5

Hard drive

Front 6

SDRAM comes on a stick know as a _____ on most modern PCs

Back 6

DIMM

Front 7

What do most laptops use instead of DIMM?

Back 7

SO-DIMM

Front 8

A DIMM in any one of the DIMM slots is reffered to as _____.

Back 8

a bank.

Front 9

What was the width in bits of the original 808 processor's frontside bus?

Back 9

8

Front 10

Most 8088 machine language commands need____byte(s).

Back 10

1

Front 11

Which of the following DIMMS is used in laptops?

Back 11

144-pin SO-DIMM

Front 12

How many pins are in a DDRM3 DIMM?

Back 12

240

Front 13

Modern CPUs since the Pentium have a data bus that is _____ bits wide. what is the RDRAM also known as?

Back 13

64,RIMM

Front 14

What type of computer uses the 68-pin micro-DIMM and 144-pin SO-DIMM?

Back 14

Laptop

Front 15

DDR SDRAM for laptops comes in ______.

Back 15

172-pin micro-DIMMS

Front 16

How many pins does a DDR3 SODIMM have?

Back 16

204

Front 17

Which statement is true?

DDR2 sticks will fit in DDR sockets.

DDR2 sticks will fit in DDR3 sockets.

DDR3 sticks will fit in DDR2 sockets.

DDR3-1066 has a PC3-8500 PC speed rating.

Back 17

DDR3-1066 has a PC3-8500 PC speed rating.

Front 18

AMD's answer to RDRAM was ____________.

Back 18

DDR-SDRAM

Front 19

All unused RIMM slots on an RDRAM motherboard should have a device called a _________ installed on them.

Back 19

CRIMM

Front 20

DDR SDRAM for desktops comes in___________.

Back 20

184-pin DIMMS

Front 21

What does excessive disk thrashing indicate?

Back 21

Insufficient RAM

Front 22

If Windows generates parity errors with the same addresses, the ______ is probably at fault.

Back 22

RAM

Front 23

What is the delay in RAM response time called?

Back 23

Latency

Front 24

When choose RAM for a modern system, what should you consider first?

Back 24

Technology,capacity,speed

Front 25

Which of the following is correct about the DDR speed rating of DDR400 RAM?

Back 25

It has a clock speed of 200 MHz.

Front 26

SDRAM uses the ______ speed

Back 26

Clock

Front 27

The user has to install RIMMS in pairs, as the _____chip employs dual-channel architecture.

Back 27

RDRAM

Front 28

RAM wih a PC rating of PC1600 has a clock speed of

Back 28

100 MHz

Front 29

RAM with a DDR2 speed rating of DDR2-800 has a core RAM clock speed of

Back 29

200 MHz

Front 30

RAM with a DDr2 PC speed rating of PC2-3200 has a core RAM clock speed of

Back 30

100 MHz

Front 31

The panic buttoin inside the PC is called_____.

Back 31

NMI.

Front 32

Chipsets that support a feature called triple-channel memory usually suport which type of memory?

Back 32

DDR3

Front 33

What do PCs use on the hard drive as an extension of system RAM?

Back 33

Page file

Front 34

What are the minimum system RAM requirements for Windows XP?

Back 34

64MB

Front 35

What are the minimum RAM requirements for Windows Vista(32-bit)

Back 35

1GB

Front 36

What are the minimum system RAM requirements for Windows 7(64-bit)?

Back 36

2GB

Front 37

Which version of Windows comes with the Memory Diagnostics Tool, which can automatically scan your computer's RAM when you encounter a problem?

Back 37

WIndows 7

Front 38

Where does the system swap programs from RAM to when the PC starts running out of real RAM?

Back 38

L2

Front 39

What feature, supported by some chipsets, works a lot like dual-channel before it, but with three sticks of RAM instead of two?

Back 39

Tripled-channel memory

Front 40

All running programs on the users PC are store on the ________.

Back 40

RAM

Front 41

The memory controller chip (MCC) controls memory access to the CPU, On modern PCs the MCC handles _________bits

Back 41

64

Front 42

Early RAM technologies used a form of error checking called ________

Back 42

parity.

Front 43

Instead of parity, modern servers employ motherboards that support________________ for error checking.

Back 43

Error correction code(ECC)

Front 44

Access speed of RDRAM is measured in _______

Back 44

MHz.

Front 45

The ______________ functions like an electronic spreadsheet, with numbered rows containing cells.

Back 45

DRAM

Front 46

The average PC motherboard accepts no more than four sticks of RAM. A motherboard hat accepts more(such as six or eight sticks) uses_______________ DRAM.

Back 46

buffered or registered.

Front 47

Windows XP needs ______________ MB of RAM as a reasonable minimum.

Back 47

256

Front 48

The main difference between SDRAM and DRAM is that SDRAM is ____________.

Back 48

synchonous

Front 49

Windows Vista needs ____________ GB of RAM as a reasonable minimum.

Back 49

2

Front 50

RAM sticks can be single or _______________ sided.

Back 50

Double

Front 51

NMI's manifest themselves to the use in the form of a blue screen called the _______________.

Back 51

Blue Screen of Death(BSoD)

Front 52

RAM slots are organized electroincally into __________.

Back 52

Banks

Front 53

The DIMM is capable of delivering _____________ bits at a time.

Back 53

64

Front 54

The ratio of the width of the CPU's external data bus to the width of the SIMM or DIMM is equal to _____________-

Back 54

one bank

Front 55

_____________ RAM is tired to the system clock.

Back 55

Synchronus