Quiz 3 - Internal Memory, GDB

Question 1

Which type of memory is used for main memory?

Question 2

What is a Hard Failure?

Answer 2

A permanent physical defect in memory

Question 3

What is SDRAM?

Answer 3

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

Question 4

What is ROM?

Answer 4

Memory that can only be read

Question 5

If a charge is found within the capacitor of a memory cell, it is said to be what value?

Answer 5

1

Question 6

In GDB how can a memory address 0x404036 be displayed in hex?

Answer 6

x/x 0x404036

Question 7

How does DDR accomplish double data rates?

Answer 7

By using a higher clock rate on the bus
By synchronizing on the rising and falling edge of the clock
By using a buffering scheme

Question 8

What are the primary error types in memory?

Answer 8

Soft Error
Hard Failure

Question 9

What is the main component of a Static Ram cell?

Answer 9

Flip Flop

Question 10

What makes DRAM dynamic?

Answer 10

The tendency for charge to leak away

Question 11

T or F: ROM is volatile.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

How is data placed into embedded ROM chips?

Answer 12

It is wired into the chip during fabrication

Question 13

In GDB how can the contents of the registers be displayed?

Question 14

________________ is cheaper, simpler, and smaller while ________________ is faster and more stable.

Answer 14

DRAM , SRAM

Question 15

What makes SDRAM Synchronous?

Question 16

What x86 Assembly command moves data between registers?

Answer 16

mov

Question 17

When declaring a variable, what does the ? indicate?

Question 18

What does the following line of x86 Assembly create?

Foo TIMES 8 DB 4

Answer 18

An array of 8 bytes each containing the value 4

Question 19

T or F: Data can be moved from one memory location directly to another using x86 assembly.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

What does the following line of x86 Assembly create?

Fun DD 1, 2, 3

Answer 20

An array of three doublewords containing 1, 2, and 3 respectively