Memory and Storage Questions

• Which of the following is normally used to initialize a computer system's hardware?
• Which of the following memories uses a MOS capacitor as its memory cell?
• How many 2K × 8 ROM chips would be required to build a 16K × 8 memory system?
• Which is not a removable drive?
• The bit capacity of a memory that has 2048 addresses and can store 8 bits at each address is ________.
• One of the most important specifications on magnetic media is the ________.
• How can UV erasable PROMs be recognized?
• What is the maximum time required before a dynamic RAM must be refreshed?
• Dynamic memory cells store a data bit in a ________.
• What is a multitap digital delay line?
• How many 8 k × 1 RAMs are required to achieve a memory with a word capacity of 8 k and a word length of eight bits?
• Which is not a hard disk performance parameter?
• Which is not a magnetic storage device?
• Which is not part of a hard disk drive?
• How many address bits are required for a 4096-bit memory organized as a 512 × 8 memory?
• A burst refresh and a normal memory operation of a DRAM can be interspersed.
• The address-decoding scheme for a 16K-byte EPROM memory system requires a 1-to-8-address decoder when 4K × 8 memory is used.
• Main computer memory is usually DRAM because of its high density and low cost; cache memory is usually SRAM because of its high speed.
• Testing and troubleshooting the decoding logic will not reveal problems with the memory chips and their connections to the CPU busses.
• Fusible-link PROMs are programmed by removing the desired fuse links using a microscope and tweezers.