Year 11: Hardware Revision

Question 1

A CPU with 2 cores is known as ...

Accepted Answer

Dual core

Question 2

What are the steps of the processing cycle?

Accepted Answer

Fetch Decode Execute

Question 3

Information in each memory addresss is stored as

Accepted Answer

Binary data

Question 4

What type of memory is cache memory?

Accepted Answer

Volatile

Question 5

The clock speed of a computer is measured in ...

Accepted Answer

Hertz

Question 6

ROM stands for ...

Accepted Answer

Read Only Memory

Question 7

What is the name given to the small storage locations in the CPU?

Accepted Answer

Registers

Question 8

RAM is volatile, this means that ...

Accepted Answer

Loses data when the computer is switched off

Question 9

What is the name of the register which holds the address of the next instruction in the CPU?

Accepted Answer

Program counter

Question 10

Why is cache memory more preferable than RAM?

Accepted Answer

Faster access

Question 11

The purpose of the ALU is to ...

Accepted Answer

Mathematical and logical operations

Question 12

What happens at the fetch stage of the processing cycle?

Accepted Answer

Retrives instructions from the memory address

Question 13

Which of the following is a benefit of a computer system containing more cores?

Accepted Answer

Higher PC performace

Question 14

Which of the following options is not a method of increasing CPU performance?

Accepted Answer

More hardware

Question 15

Which of the following statements about RAM are false?

Accepted Answer

Stores the program necessary to boot the computer

Question 16

Which of the following clock speeds respresents 1 billion calculations per second?

Accepted Answer

Gigahertz

Question 17

What does ALU stand for?

Accepted Answer

Arithmatic Logic Unit

Question 18

Manufacturers are finding it difficult to produce faster microprocessors due to

Accepted Answer

the amount of heat generated

Questions 18