1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor

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1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor
Demetrios Symeou
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Demetrios Symeou
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Question 1

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What is the general name of the small memory located in a processor?
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  • Control unit
  • Program counter
  • Registers
  • Arithmetic logic unit

Question 2

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What is the main reason to use registers inside CPU?
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  • They are necessary for calculations
  • Simplification
  • Reliability
  • Speed

Question 3

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What is a mnemonic?
Answer
  • Low-level language
  • Type of a register
  • Abbreviation of an instruction operation
  • Binary code that the instruction is translated to

Question 4

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What is the name of a register that stores the intermediate results of arithmetic and logic calculations?
Answer
  • Current instruction register
  • Accumulator
  • Program counter
  • Memory data register

Question 5

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What is the name of the cycle that takes care of execution of programs?
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  • Program cycle
  • Execution cycle
  • Fetch-decode-execute cycle
  • Decode-execute-fetch cycle

Question 6

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What is the name of the memory that is used to store the data that the processor is likely to reuse?
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  • Cache
  • HDD
  • RAM
  • Register

Question 7

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Which register stores the instruction currently being executed?
Answer
  • Program counter
  • Memory address register
  • Acummulator
  • Current instruction register

Question 8

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Which bus manages the information flow about operations (whether read or write, timing) between the components?
Answer
  • None of these
  • Address bus
  • Control bus
  • Data bus

Question 9

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What is the name of the register that is important for order of the instructions?
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  • Current instruction register
  • Program counter
  • Memory data register
  • Accumulator
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