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what are the two main components of the CPU and what do they do?
explain what happens in the fetch, decode, execute cycle
What is the CU (control unit) responsible for doing?
What does the CU (control unit) manage?
What are registers used by the CU for?
What does the AUL (Arithmetic logic unit) do?
How is data encoded?
What do memory addresses do?
What is clock speed?
Explain Moore's Law
What is a transistor?
what are mini processors?
What is cache memory?
What happens when the CPU requests data from the cache memory?
Explain RAM
Explain ROM
How does RAM determine the value of a memory address
What can RAM be referred to as?
Explain the memory space in RAM
How is data saved in ROM?
Give an example of ROM
What is Flash Memory?
What is Virtual Memory?
TRUE OR FALSE?
calculations are performed by the ALU
TRUE OR FALSE?
the IAS is the only memory used by the CPU
TRUE OR FALSE?
RAM has an impact on a computers overall speed
TRUE OR FALSE?
most computer processors have one core
TRUE OR FALSE?
volatile memory means that data is wiped id the power supply is lost
TRUE OR FALSE?
non-volatile memory means that the data is stored permanently
TRUE OR FALSE?
the CU controls the memory
TRUE OR FALSE?
clock speed determines where the instructions are sent
TRUE OR FALSE?
memory addresses turn calculations into code
TRUE OR FALSE?
flash memory is a type of programmable read-only memory
