Crash Course Computer Science

Which type of memory, denoted RAM, stores values only when the power is on?

• Regular Arbitrary Memory

• Rarely Accessible Memory

• Readily Accessed Memory

• Random Access Memory

Which type of memory can retain information without power?

• persistent memory

• volatile memory

• static RAM

• dynamic RAM

An OR gate, with the output fed back to one of the inputs, will ___

• permanently record a 1

• permanently record a 0

• temporarily record a 1

• temporarily record a 0

An AND gate, with the output fed back to one of the inputs, will ___

• permanently record a 1

• permanently record a 0

• temporarily record a 1

• temporarily record a 0

The AND-OR latch is also known as an S-R latch due to the two inputs: ___

• Set and Reset

• Send and Recieve

• Switch and Reswitch

• Signal and Respond

For an AND-OR latch, if set and reset are both 0, the circuit outputs ___

• 1

• 0

• whatever was last put in it

• an overflow

The action of putting data into memory is called ___

• reading

• writing

• inputting

• displaying

The action of getting data out of memory is called ___

• grasping

• reviewing

• reading

• displaying

A gated latch, where the “gate” can be opened or closed, has two inputs: ___

• "set" and "reset"

• "open" and "close"

• "data in" and "write enable"

• "store" and "erase all"

For a gated latch, a value is written to memory when ___

• "write enable" is set to 1

• "write enable" is set to 0

• "data in" is set to 1

• "data in" is set to 0