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Question 87

DMA steals cycle from the ______.

  1. AI/O device or Hard disk
  2. BPhysical Memory
  3. CCache Memory
  4. DCentral Processing Unit
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Correct answer: (D) Central Processing Unit

Explanation

In cycle stealing, the DMA controller takes the system bus from the CPU for a memory cycle at a time, so it steals cycles from the CPU.

From DSSSB TGT Computer Science Practice Set 5

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