Question

The unit which acts as an intermediate agent between memory and backing store to reduce process time is ___________

(a) TLB’s

(b) Registers

(c) Page tables

(d) Cache

This question was addressed to me during an interview for a job.

My query is from Memory Operations and Management in chapter Machine Instructions and Programs of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Correct option is (d) Cache

To elaborate: The cache’s help in data transfers by storing most recently used memory pages.