A good answer might be:

It is a good test. The job of memory is to hold bit patterns, and to return them when requested, and that is what is tested.

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The components of a computer system.
Device controllers.
Kilobytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes
Memory addresses
Virtual memory.
Cache memory