Exam 5: Ram

How was the 400-MHz frontside bus speed achieved?

A motherboard should detect and automatically set up any DIMM you install, assuming you have the right RAM for the system, using a technology called _______________.

What is Microsoft's recommendation on the amount of RAM to use for ReadyBoost drives?

What is Microsoft's minimum system RAM requirement for 64-bit versions of Windows?

Describe the performance gain obtained by using ReadyBoost.

No _______________ processors support a triple-channel feature.

DDR sticks use a rather interesting naming convention based on the number of _______________ per second of data throughput the RAM can handle.

Which term refers to typical consumer RAM?

Excessive hard drive activity when you move between programs points to a need for more _______________.

What was the first type of error-detecting RAM?

Briefly describe error correction code RAM (ECC RAM) and explain how it works.

_______________ parity errors are simply errors that the MCC detects from the parity or ECC chips (if you have them).

How does DDR2 RAM accomplish its speed increase over DDR RAM?

What does excessive disk thrashing suggest?

What do system lockups and page faults indicate in Windows?

Why is it advantageous to use one of the low-voltage versions of DDR3?

Because RDRAM could be used only with Intel components, AMD and many major system and memory makers threw their support behind an alternative to RDRAM called _______________.

What is the range of sizes for ReadyBoost devices and what factors affect how much of this memory Windows can use?

How do you get to the Windows Performance Tab?

When implementing ReadyBoost, what is the maximum number of flash devices Windows 7 and later can handle?