Explain the Von Neumann architecture. "Explain the role and operation of main memory and the following major components of a central processing unit (CPU): arithmetic logic unit, control unit, clock bus."
"Explain the effect of the following on the performance of the CPU: clock speed, number of processor cores, cache size, cache type."
Understand and explain the Fetch-Execute cycle.
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What is the CPU is responsible for?
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Allocating memory locations to save files
All storage methods in your system
The monitoring of the computer's temperature
All of a computer’s processing
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When using the Von Neumann architecture computer programs and the data the programs are using are stored in the same memory, why?
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To save memory
To speed up the processing time
To complicate the process
To make it easier for people to save things
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What is the CPU is responsible for?
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When using the Von Neumann architecture computer programs and the data the programs are using are stored in the same memory, why?
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Which of the following is a characteristic of Random Access Memory (RAM)?
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What is the control Unit?
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Which of the following does the arithmetic logic unit not do?
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What is the Clock speed in relation to the CPU?
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Which of these is true about the greater a CPU's clock speed?
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What impact does having more cores have on a CPU?
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What is Cache memory?
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What is Level 1 Cache?
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The fetching process in the fetch-decode-execute cycle carries out what role?
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The decode process in the fetch-decode-execute cycle carries out what role?
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The execute process in the fetch-decode-execute cycle carries out what role?
