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Alpha Adventures Computing Year 10 English 10 cards

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1What does CPU stand for?Central processing unit
2What is a cache?The middle-man between the CPU and the main memory
3What is an embedded system?A piece of hardware that has an operating system designed for only one use, for example a blender
4What is RAM? What does volatile mean?RAM is the main memory within a computer. Volatile means that it loses all data stored in it when power is lost.
5What is von Neumann architecture?It describes an electronic system that consist of several parts, for example, a processing unit with an arithmetic logic unit
6What is the FDE cycle used for?Fetching instructions to process them so they are able to be decoded
7What is faster to access, a solid state drive or a hard drive?A solid state drive - however a hard drive has a higher storage
8"Every time I open my computer, I open Chrome as soon as I log in." Where would the instruction of opening Chrome be stored?In the cache, because it is a commonly used instruction
9What does a Program Counter hold?It holds the number of the instruction currently being executed.
10Data that has just come out the memory is stored in the...Memory Data Register