Computer Or gani z ation an d Ar chi tecture , 9 th Editi on , b y Wi lliam S tallin gs
TEST BANK for Computer Organization and Architecture 9th Edition by William Stallings Download at http://downloadlink.org/p/test-bank-for-computer-organization-andarchitecture-9th-edition-by-william-stallings/ SOLUTIONS MANUAL for Computer Organization and Architecture 9th Edition by William Stallings Download at: http://downloadlink.org/p/solutions-manual-for-computer-organizationand-architecture-9th-edition-by-william-stallings/ CHAPTE R 3: A TO P- LEVEL VI E W O F CO M PU TE R FUNCTIO N AN D INTE RCO NNECTIO N
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T F 1. At a top level, a compute r consist s of CPU , memory, an d I/ O comp onen ts. T
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2. The b asi c functi on of a compute r is t o execute p rograms.
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3. Program execution c onsist s of rep ea ti ng the p rocess of in fetch and in struction execution. struction
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4. Int errupt s do not i m p rove p rocessin g effici en cy.
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5. An I/O mo dule cann ot e xchan ge dat a directl y wit h the p rocessor. 6. A key charact eristi c of a b us is that it is n ot a shared transmissi on medium.
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7. Comp uter syste ms c onta in a n umb er of different b uses that p rovide p at hways be tween comp onen ts a t various levels of the comp uter syste m hie rarchy.
T F 8. In gene ral, the more devices a tt ached to the b us, the grea te r the b us len gth an d hence the grea te r the p ropa gat ion delay. T F 9. It i s not p ossib le t o conne ct I/O controllers directly onto t he syste m b us. T
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10. The method o f using the same lin es for mul ti p le p urp oses i s known a s t ime mu ltipl e xin g.