Question

The larger memory placed between the primary cache and the memory is called ______

(a) Level 1 cache

(b) Level 2 cache

(c) EEPROM

(d) TLB

This question was posed to me during an interview.

My enquiry is from Hierarchy of Memory in chapter Memory System of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

The correct choice is (b) Level 2 cache

To explain: This is basically used to provide effective memory mapping.