Match each memory to what it does
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- RAM
- Right
- Volatile main memory, lost on power off
- Left
- ROM
- Right
- Non-volatile, holds the startup program
- Left
- Cache
- Right
- Very fast memory between CPU and RAM
- Left
- Hard disk
- Right
- Secondary store: bigger, slower, cheaper
- Instructions
- Tap a memory on the left, then tap what it does on the right.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus CS XI Ch1 Computer System, 1.3.2 Types of Memory_