Question

The main purpose of having memory hierarchy is to ________

(a) Reduce access time

(b) Provide large capacity

(c) Reduce propagation time

(d) Reduce access time & Provide large capacity

I have been asked this question in an interview for internship.

The doubt is from Performance of Caches topic in division Memory System of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) Reduce access time & Provide large capacity

To explain: By using the memory Hierarchy, we can increase the performance of the system.