Teaching HPSC Lecturer (Technical) Mock Test 2024 Computer Organization and Architecture I/O Interface Modes of Data Transfer
A hard disk with a transfer rate of 20 MBps is constantly transferring data to memory using DMA. The processor runs at 400 MHz and takes 300 and 700 clock cycles to initiate and complete DMA transfer respectively. If the size of the transfer is 60 Kbytes, what is the percentage of processor time consumed for the transfer operation?
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0.02
2
0.03
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0.08
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0.05
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