COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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TRUE
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FALSE
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expansion bus determines what exactly can be added to system – how many add-on cards, how much memory on expansion cards, what other system components and how easy it will be to setup system. It provide a common pathway for data, address and control signals that links various components of PC.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fast PCI bus is used for peripherals that need fast access to the CPU, memory, and other peripherals. For fastest performance, the choice would be a PC with a PCI bus, although a versatile PC should include some ISA expansion slots as well as PCI expansion slots.
Detailed explanation-3: -3) Address Bus-As the name suggests, address bus is used to carry address from CPU to memory/IO devices. It is used to identify the particular location in memory. It carries the source or destination address of data i.e. where to store or from where to retrieve the data.
Detailed explanation-4: -CPU or Processor Bus The CPU bus is the highest-level bus through which the chipset uses to send information to the processor and receive information from the processor. Cache Bus In high-level bus architecture, the Pentium processors use a dedicated bus for accessing the system cache.