Question

Which of the following are true about associative memory.

• S1: Associative memory is fast memory.
• S2: Associative memory searches by content and not by accessing the address.

a) Both S1 and S2 are true and S2 is correct explanation of S1
b) Both S1 and S2 are true, and S2 is not correct explanation of S1
c) S1 is true but S2 is false
d) S1 is false but S2 is true

Answer 1

d).

S2 is true and searching by content requires comparison and hence slower than accessing my address.

Comments

thnx my doubt is clear now

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Associative memory: 

it is much faster than RAM in virtually all search applications.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory

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by* address

Answer 2

Both are Correct. Associative Memory is also called as Content addressable Memory..

Comments

According to you is it A or B?