What is a general purpose computer?
A computer found in a digital watch
A computer designed to perform more than one task
A small computer that forms part of a larger system
What is clock speed measured in?
Bytes
Hertz
Seconds
Which of the following are components of the central processing unit (CPU)?
Registers, read only memory (ROM) and cache
Registers, read only memory (ROM) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
Registers, cache and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
Which central processing unit (CPU) component performs logical operations?
Control unit (CU)
Cache
Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
What is the name of the cycle that a CPU follows to run instructions and process data?
The data cycle
Fetch-execute-decode
Fetch-decode-execute
What is a register?
A small amount of high-speed random access memory (RAM) contained within the processor
A small amount of high-speed read only memory (ROM) contained within the processor
What is a core?
A second processing unit within a control unit (CU)
A system that has many processors
A processing unit within a CPU
What are the three types of bus?
Address, control and instruction
Address, control and data
Address, data and instruction
Which of these statements about von Neumann architecture is true?
Only data is stored in primary memory
Instructions and data are entirely separate from one another
Data and instructions are both stored in primary storage
Which register holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched from memory?
Program counter (PC)
Memory address register (MAR)
Current instruction register (CIR)