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Computer science
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- 1What is an embedded system?Embedded systems are computers built into other computer systems.
- 2What is the CPU?The central processing unit
- 3What does the CPU do?Process' data across a computer system
- 4What is the CU?The control unit
- 5What does the CU do?execute program instructions by following the fetch-decode-execute cycle.
- 6What is the ALU?The Arithmetic Logic Unit
- 7What does the ALU do?It does all the calculations it completes simple addition and subtraction, compares the size of numbers and can do multiplications and divisions using repeated addition and subtraction.
- 8What is cache?Very fast memory in the CPU Its slower than the registers but faster than RAM,
It stores regularly used data so that the CPU can access it quickly the next time it’s needed. - 9What is the MDR?Main Data Register
- 10What is the MAR?Main Address Register
- 11What does the MDR do?The MDR stores actual data that is being processed at that time the MDR acts as a buffer and hold data that is copied from RAM
- 12What does the MAR do?The MAR holds the address of the current instruction being executed.
- 13no.1 Factors affecting the CPU in hertz ?Clock Speed
- 14No.2 Factors affecting the CPU linked on a single chip.Cores
- 15No.3 Factors affecting the CPU dependant on size?Cache
- 16How many bits can fit in a byte?8 bits
- 17How many GigaBytes fit in a TerraByte1000 GigaBytes
- 18What is RAM?Random Access Memory
- 19What is ROM?Read Only Memory
- 20What does the RAM do?The RAM takes in parts of the operating system.
- 21What does the ROM do?The ROM stores the start instructions on the BIOS being non volatile.
- 22What are the BIOS?Basic Input Output systems
- 23What are the to online secondary storage's?Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive.
- 24What are the four offline secondary storage's?Compact disk E.g. CD, DVD, Blu ray
USB flash drive
Removable HDD
Magnetic Tape - 25What is the SSD?Solid State Drive
- 26What is the HDD?Hard Disk Drive
- 27Name all 3 storage methods?Magnetic
Optical
Solid State - 28How much can a CD hold?720MB
- 29How much can a DVD hold?8.4GB
- 30How much can a Blu Ray hold50GB
- 31How much can a SSD hold?100GB- 16TB
- 32How much can a HDD hold?232.88GB
- 33What is meant by volatile?Volatile is were a piece of storage retains data only as long as there is a power supply connected to the computer.
- 34What is meant by Non volatile?A type of computer memory that can retrieve stored information even after having been power cycles for example the instructions to boot up a computer.
- 35What does <- mean?Less than
- 36What does >- mean?Greater than
- 37What does >= mean?Less than or equal to
- 38What does <= mean?Greater than or equal to
- 39What does != mean?Not equal to
- 40What does == mean?Equal to
- 41What is 2 Gigahertz = in cycles2 billion cycles per second
- 42What is L1 cache?It is extremely fast however is small (2-64KB) and is located very close to the processor
- 43What is L2 cache?It is fairly fast and medium sized (256KB-2MB) and is fairly close to the processor.
- 44What is L3 cache?It is relatively large (4MB-50MB) but runs the slowest and is close to the RAM.
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