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SLR 1 – Structure and Function of the Processor
SLR 1 – Structure and Function of the Processor
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The contents of which register are copied to the CIR if it is an instruction?
MDR
ALU
PC
MAR
2
Which of these speeds up the CPU?
All of the above
Faster clock speed
More cores
Larger cache
3
Which register is nicknamed "gateway to the processor"?
CIR
MAR
MDR
Accumulator
4
Which of these is not a contemporary processor architecture?
Distributed computing
SIMD
Harvard
MIMD
5
Which of these is not a register?
MDR
ALU
Accumulator
PC
6
Which of these is not something every computer does?
Sings doe, a deer, a female deer
Delivers output
Takes input
Processes data
7
Which part of the CPU decodes instructions?
Current Instruction Register
Decode Unit
Control Unit
Arithmetic Logic Unit
8
Which processor architecture has shared space for instructions and data?
Harvard
Von Neumann
9
Which register is the address held in the PC copied to at the start of each FDE cycle?
MDR
CIR
MAR
Accumulator
10
Which part of an instruction contains what to do it to?
The operand
The opcode
11
What is not a function of the ALU?
Performs Boolean comparison operations
Performs mathematical operations
Performs bitwise shift operations
Performs data request operations
12
Which part of an instruction contains what to do?
The operand
The opcode
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Which bus only goes one way?
Control bus
Data bus
Address bus
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What does the accumulator store?
All of the above
The results of calculations
Temporary control information
Temporary data
