Quiz 3
This is an individual assignment. You must work alone to complete this quiz. It is important that you complete all readings and videos prior to attempting the quiz. The completed quiz must be submitted in appropriate assignment folder by the due date and time. Please see the Syllabus > Course Schedule. This quiz is valued at 5 points (5% of course grade).
1. List and describe at least three factors that distinguish storage devices.
Speed- of fast the storage device can read and/or write data
Volatility- if the device loses power will the information be erased.
Cost and capacity – cost per unit, such as cost per GB, is also used to distinguish between devices.
2. What is the relationship between RAM and the CPU?
The CPU does
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On shutdown items stored in the memory are wiped away.
6. List and describe at least three types of storage that is typically included in all computer systems.
RAM- Volatile and can be read/wrote to.
Rom- Non-Volatile and can only be read, Fastest of the three.
HDD- Non-volatile can be read/wrote to, slowest of the three.
7. What is the difference between cache and conventional memory?
Cache memory is the fastest memory outside of the CPU, runs at 10-30 ns per access.
Conventional memory is a combination of ROM+RAM and runs at 50-100 ns per access.
8. What is the fastest type of storage, how fast does it work, and where is located?
The fastest type of storage is the CPU memory and it is located in the CPU. It runs about 1 ns per access.
9. Describe three factors that determine the size of RAM?
The number of bit words that it can store.
The length of the bit words.
Architecture of the memory, Ex ddr 2, ddr 3
10. List and describe at least two commonly used approaches to improve memory performance.
Two common approaches to improving memory performance are cache memory and virtual
3) Quick sort – It also tends to have a significantly high memory space mostly due to the stack
4) Which type of application benefits the most by bypassing write cache? Justify your answer.
5. This chapter describes the concepts behind how a CPU reads the contents from RAM. Which of
1.1) Give 5 types of hardware resources and five types of data or software resources that
RAM: RAM stands for Random Access Memory. It is a bit like a person's short-term memory. RAM is volatile so data only exists only when the computer is turned on, and is used by the operating system and other applications.
The first medium I want to cover is a hard-drive that is used inside computers and servers. A hard-drive can be broken up into different partitions, which sets up a volume with a single file system and a unique drive letter. These partitions of the hard-drive are kept track in a table called a partitions table. A hard-drive uses NTFS which breaks the drive into sectors of 512 bytes. These different sectors are stored
Which of the following partitions does Linux use when all the information that Linux is processing cannot be stored in RAM?
Flash memory is a solid-state drive (SSD) that maintains data storage without moving parts, even
It is the type of disk in which the space is fixed. it doesn’t matter how much data you store.
A range of storage devices can be added in order to store many terabytes of data without interrupting the flow of business operations. Storage is completely independent when it comes to the applications and is effortlessly assessable through different data paths. Enhanced application performance is attained when storage processing is relocated from the systems to a separate network. A well-configured SAN with mirroring and redundant servers can greatly reduce any downtime (Vacca, 2002). A SAN is not physically attached to any particular server or network and can be readily shared (Vacca, 2002). Fibre channel switching can make the setting up of private connections with other SANs very easy (Kotwal, 2015). The connections can even be utilized for backups, mirroring, or
There are two main types of network-based storage, storage-area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS). Choosing between a SAN and a NAS system depends on user’s needs. In fact, each technology certainly has its own advantages as well as disadvantages.
In addition to the cost, storage technologies can be distinguished by evaluating some main characteristics as well as performance, which is the time and the rate at which a piece of data can be read from or written to the storage medium, and capacity, which denotes “how much disk space one or more storage devices provides” (Techterms, 2009). To boost these fundamental characteristics, other technologies emerged, such as Holographic Data Storage and DNA-based Data Storage. The Holographic Data Storage is a new emerging technology that helps considerably in high-capacity data storage by enhancing the process’ performance. Using this technology, the data writing and reading processes are
Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as RAID levels, depending on the required level of redundancy and performance.
Cached (753MB) – this is memory space that has was recently used by processes and is still available if needed, the system holds on to the data in this memory space for quick access if a previously active process that requests for the data again. .
Today, as a society, we all seem to accept the trend of doing multiple things at the same time because of the limited amount of time we are given on a daily basis. We find ourselves juggling many tasks at once; whether it is time with family, work, or even a favorite hobby, we all have to find time to manage all of these things while maintaining some kind of balance. It can be very difficult today to find time to do all of these things and one way to make it a lot easier is by using computers. While scientifically proven that it is impossible for our brains to do multiple tasks at the same time, we still seem to try. But now that we have so many amazing mini computer systems working around us, we can now do the multi-tasking that our hearts desire. Our computers can do many processes simultaneously, allowing us to do many things that we want at the same time. But how do these computers handle all of these processes and applications at the same time? Well, in short, computer memory. To describe the way that memory works, I will be explaining a few of the many components of computer memory and how it is managed. Memory management is the act of managing computer memory. The topics that I will include in the paper will consist of the following: Dynamic memory allocation, Virtual memory, memory leaks and stale references, fragmentation, large memory and cache systems.