IPA IP 2026 Question 61
A question IPA Japan published in 令和8年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問61, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Which of the following is the memory dedicated to screen display that is used to hold the data required for the screen display of a PC?
Explanation
VRAM — video RAM is the memory reserved for holding the image that is shown on the screen.
VRAM (video random access memory) stores the screen data, the colour of every pixel of the picture being displayed. The graphics controller or GPU writes the next picture into it and reads it out continuously to refresh the display, so the PC's screen is drawn from VRAM. The more VRAM, the higher the resolution and colour depth that can be held.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- •(a) — EEPROM is non-volatile memory whose contents can be erased and rewritten electrically; it keeps settings and firmware, not screen data
- •(c) — cache memory sits between the CPU and main memory to make memory access faster; it is not reserved for the display
- •(d) — flash memory is a kind of EEPROM erased in blocks, used for storage such as SSDs and USB memory
Key rule: VRAM holds what is displayed; cache speeds up CPU access to main memory; EEPROM and flash memory keep data without power.
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