Which of the following statements is true L2 cache is faster

Which of the following statements is true? L2 cache is faster than L1 cache There are several levels of cache in a computer A cache miss penalty is less than a cache hit A cache hit indicates that the information we are looking for is not in the cache What are the sources of cache misses? Select all that applies Compulsory Contingency Conflict Capacity Temporal Locality Spatial Locality The method for updating the main memory as soon as a word is removed from the cache is called__________Write-through Write-back Protected write Cache-write

Solution

IV.

a) incorrect

In general l1 is faster than l2

b) there are three levels of cache in the memory

l1, l2, l3.

c) yes, cache miss penality is less than cache hit.

d) no it is cache miss.

V.

compulsary, capacity, conflict.

VI. B) write-back