1.1 The Characteristics of Contemporary Processors, Input, Output and Storage Devices: revision quiz and key terms
Free practice for 1.1 The Characteristics of Contemporary Processors, Input, Output and Storage Devices in OCR A Level Computer Science (H446). It has 3 parts: 1.1.1 CPU Architecture and Components, 1.1.2 Types of Processor and 1.1.3 Input, Output and Storage. Try the questions, then check the key terms.
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Which register holds the address of the memory location currently being read from or written to?
RISC processors use a smaller number of simple instructions that execute in a fixed number of cycles.
What is the main purpose of pipelining in a processor?
Increasing a CPU's clock speed always doubles the overall performance of a computer.
Why is a GPU well suited to processing graphics?
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Key terms for 1.1 The Characteristics of Contemporary Processors, Input, Output and Storage Devices
- ALU
- Performs arithmetic and logical operations.
- CISC
- A processor design with a large set of complex instructions, some taking several clock cycles.
- Execute stage
- The CPU carries out the action specified by the decoded instruction.
- Harvard architecture
- Stores instructions and data in separate memories, each with its own bus.
- Pipelining
- Fetching, decoding and executing different instructions at the same time to increase throughput.
- RISC
- Uses a smaller number of simple instructions that execute in a fixed number of cycles.
- Solid state storage
- Stores data electronically with no moving parts.
- Von Neumann architecture
- Stores instructions and data in the same memory, accessed using a shared bus.
What 1.1 The Characteristics of Contemporary Processors, Input, Output and Storage Devices covers
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- 1.1.1 CPU Architecture and Components
- 1.1.2 Types of Processor
- 1.1.3 Input, Output and Storage
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