Multiple choice

Which of the following memories has the fastest access time?

  1. Magnetic memory

  2. Tertiary storage

  3. Disk storage

  4. Cache memory

  5. Main memory
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The internal CPU cache is five times as fast (may be even close to ten times as fast) as the external memory access.

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