Practice Test Items And Analysis Level Questions (14.3) - Memory Addressing and Bus Size
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Question 1 Easy

What does an address bus do?

💡 Hint: Think about where data is stored.

Question 2 Easy

How many addresses can a 10-bit address bus access?

💡 Hint: Calculate based on powers of 2.

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Question 1

How many unique addresses can a 16-bit address bus generate?

65536
256
1024
4096

💡 Hint: Calculate using powers of 2.

Question 2

True or False: A 10-bit address bus can access 512 locations.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what 2^10 equals.

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Challenge 1 Hard

You have a 4GB RAM system. If you upgrade to 8GB with the same architecture, what will be the new address bus size?

💡 Hint: Address bus size doesn’t change with memory size upgrades unless the architecture is also upgraded.

Challenge 2 Hard

If a 256KB memory module uses word organization (2 bytes per word), how many address locations are needed?

💡 Hint: Convert KB to bytes and divide by bytes per word.

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