While Troubleshooting a Computer Hardware Problem, You Find That the Processor

question 18

Multiple Choice

While troubleshooting a computer hardware problem, you find that the processor is not being informed when a device has data ready to be read or written. What is the likely problem?

• A) ALU
• B) hyper-threading
• C) IRQs
• D) CPU core

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Fort Wagner

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