Quiz 16.2

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.

Coverage: Sections 16.3 and 16.4

  1. What is the name of the system that automatically recognizes and integrates devices into a computer system without a human having to manually alter a configuration file?
autobussing
multibussing
plug 'n' play

  1. Which computer series used the Microchannel bus?
IBM's PS/2 series
DEC VAXes
CDC Cybers
SUN

  1. What logic gates are often used to electrically connect and disconnect wires leading from a register to a bus?
ORs
tri-state buffers
ANDs
NIBs

  1. Which kind of bus architecture is in wide use today on smaller computers and allows peripherals to be connected to the computer?
Microchannel
S-100
SCSI
Multibuss

  1. What do we call a device that temporarily has control of a bus in order to send data to another device?
bus initiator
bus responder
bus arbiter

  1. How does a device tell another device what kind of operation it is performing over the bus?
it sets the data wires to appropriate values
it sets the address wires to appropriate values
it sets the control wires to appropriate values

  1. Which component is almost always a responder, never an initiator?
main memory
the central processor
I/O devices

  1. Which memory operation requires bits to flow in two directions over the bus (not at the same time)?
read
write
neither