MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ are used in computer as a temporary memory area.
A
Interrupts
B
Buffers
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In computer science, a data buffer (or just buffer) is a region of a memory used to temporarily store data while it is being moved from one place to another.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buffer memory is a temporary storage area in the main memory (RAM) that stores data transferring between two or more devices or between an application and a device. Buffering compensates for the difference in transfer speeds between the sender and receiver of the data.

Detailed explanation-3: -Types of computer memory. Cache memory. This temporary storage area, known as a cache, is more readily available to the processor than the computer’s main memory source.

Detailed explanation-4: -The buffer memory is mainly located in Random Access Memory (RAM) of a computer. In this area CPU can store its data temporarily, like the data to be forwarded to other slow speed output devices or other secondary storage devices, to enable the computer to execute other processes.

Detailed explanation-5: -A computer’s memory is also called RAM which is an acronym for Random Access Memory. A computer’s memory is where information is temporarily stored while it is being accessed or worked on.

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