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1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor
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1.1.1 Structure and function of the processor
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Question 1
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What is the general name of the small memory located in a processor?
Answer
Control unit
Program counter
Registers
Arithmetic logic unit
Question 2
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What is the main reason to use registers inside CPU?
Answer
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?
Answer
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?
Answer
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?
Answer
Current instruction register
Program counter
Memory data register
Accumulator
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