Exam 7: RAM

What does excessive disk thrashing indicate?

What is a RAM cache?

What is RDRAM also known as?

What unit is used to measure the capacity of RAM?

What is the significance of a real parity error?

What is a page file?

Which versions of Windows support a RAM cache or page file?

What should you use while installing a SO-DIMM?

Access speed of RDRAM is measured in _______________.

How will a user verify added RAM in a PC?

What's the worst that can happen if you mix DRAM speeds in a system?

What are phantom errors?

When the user loads a program,where is it copied before it is run?

Where are programs stored when they not running?

Early RAM technologies used a form of error checking called _______________.

Windows uses a portion of the hard drive as an extension of system RAM,called a __________.

The average PC motherboard accepts no more than four sticks of RAM.A motherboard that accepts more (such as six or eight sticks)uses _______________ DRAM.

Windows 7 64-bit has a minimum system RAM requirement of __________.

All running programs on the user's PC are stored on the _______________.

What happens if RAM is inserted into an incorrect bank?