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What does the Arithmetic and Logic unit do?

What is the Control Unit?

What are registers?

Where do all the arithmetic, logic, or shift operations occur?

What does the Program Counter (PC) do?

In which part of the CPU do all calculations take place?

Where are intermediate arithmetic and logic results stored?

What does the Memory Address Register do?

What does the Memory Data Register do?

What does the Current Instruction Register do?

What is a Bus?

What is the system bus?

What is the width of a bus?

What is the data bus?

What is the control bus?

What is the address bus used for?

What does adding a wire to the address bus do to the number of addressable locations?

What does Bus Request indicate?

What does Bus Grant indicate?

What does memory write do?

What does memory read do?

What does the interrupt request control signal indicate?

What is the clock control signal used for?

What is Assembly Language?

What is opcode?

What is the operand?

What occurs during the fetch phase?

What occurs during the decode phase?

What occurs during the execute phase?

What is the clock speed?

What is cache memory?

What is pipelining

What is Von Neumann architecture?

What is Harvard architecture?

What is contemporary processing?

What does RISC mean?

What does CISC mean?

What are the properties of RISC?

What are the properties of CISC?

What are the benefits of RISC processors?

What are the benefits of CISC processors?

What is a graphics processing unit?

What are GPUs used for now?

What are multi-core systems?

What are parallel systems?

Give two types of magnetic storage

What name is given to the areas on a CD’s surface which have been burned into grooves by a laser?

What does CD stand for?

Give three examples of output devices

Which has the highest typical storage capacity: CD, DVD or Blu-Ray?

In a hard disk drive, what is mounted at the end of the actuating arm?

Give two types of magnetic storage

Which storage device has typical capacities in the range 500GB-5TB?

Give two disadvantages of SSDs

What does ROM stand for?

Describe the structure in which information is stored in flash memory

What is meant by non-volatile?

Which two types of logic gate are used in flash storage?

Give three advantages of SSDs

Is ROM volatile or non-volatile?

Which form of storage device uses silicon semiconductors to store information?

Give three disadvantages of CDs

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