DIRECTIONS: Read each question carefully. Then click on the dot next to the answer that most closely fits the question. Try to answer all questions on this quiz and when you are done, click on the grade me button at the bottom.

1. What is a good definition of a bus as it applies to computer technology?

a big yellow vehicle for carrying lots of people
a group of wires that carry binary data and signals

2. Which bus connects the ALU to the registers?

internal or local bus
external or system bus
device bus
network

3. Which bus connects the main processor to the memory and I/O controllers?

internal or local bus
external or system bus
device bus
network

4. Which bus connects disk drives, printers, monitors and other peripherals to the computer?

internal or local bus
external or system bus
device bus
network

5. Which component below is the system bus?

A
B
C
D

6. Which group of bus wires would include the MA and WR wires that control main memory?

data wires
address wires
control wires

7. Some computers include fewer wires in a bus. In order to transmit more bits than they have wires, these computers must __________ data values.

multiplex
demultiplex
deocde

8. When all bits are sent over a single wire, one at a time, we say the bus is ...

parallel
unicast
serial

9. Why would a computer design cut down on the number of bus wires?

to speed up the computer
to reduce the cost
to reduce the complexity

10. When an 8-bit byte is transmitted over 4 data wires on a bus, we say the the data is

time multiplexed
space multiplexed
device multiplexed