FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Main memory refers to the internal hard drive.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A hard disk is a not kind of primary memory, it is a secondary memory. The secondary memory of the computer is known as auxiliary memory. Data on the primary memory i.e. internal memory is directly accessed by the processing unit whereas the secondary memory card data is not directly accessed by the CPU.

Detailed explanation-2: -RAM is also called Primary Memory or Main Memory. HDD is also called Secondary Memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Primary Memory is the main memory of the computer system. Accessing data from primary memory is faster because it is an internal memory of the computer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Primary memory is the main memory and stores data temporarily. Secondary memory is the external memory and stores data permanently. The CPU can directly access the data. The CPU cannot directly access the data.

Detailed explanation-5: -the main memory of a computer can also be called as primary memory. it is also known as random access memory that is RAM . when computer is shut down all the data in RAM is erased. primary memory is computer memory that is accessed directly by the CPU .

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