Flashcards
Central Processing Unit
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1What are the 3 processes a CPU performs?Fetch, Decode and Excecute
- 2Where does the CPU fetch from?The Cache or Ram or Secondary Storage
- 3What does CPU stand for?Central Processing Unit
- 4What is the CPU?It is the brain of the computer and processes all commands
- 5What is clock speed?The measurement of the amount of times a clock rotation can be performed in a second
- 6What is the ALU?A circuit used to perform logic operations
- 7What are the different levels of cache?Level 1 is the fastest, and level 2 is the overflow for level 1
- 8What is the benefit of having multiple cores?It means that the CPU can process more commands at once when compared to a single core processor
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