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Which of the following are components of the central processing unit (CPU)?
Registers, read only memory (ROM) and cache
Registers, read only memory (ROM) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
Registers, cache and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
What is Central Processing Unit (CPU) clock speed measured in?
Bytes
Hertz
Seconds
Which Central Processing Unit (CPU) component makes logical decisions?
Control unit (CU)
Cache
Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
What is a register?
A small amount of high speed memory contained within the processor
A small part of the cache
A small computer that forms part of a larger system
What is a core?
Can be made up of one or multiple physical processing units within a control unit (CU)
A system that has many processors to store information in
The memory unit within a CPU that helps remember things
What is a thread?
Virtual version of a CPU core that allow a CPU to perform multiple things at once
Physical version of a CPU core that only allows a CPU to perform one thing at a time
Virtual version of memory that allows RAM to perform multiple things at once
What are the three types of bus?
Address, control and instruction
Address, control and data
Address, data and instruction
What is the name of the cycle that a CPU follows to run instructions and process data?
The data cycle
Fetch-execute-decode
Fetch-decode-execute
What is Central Processing Unit (CPU) overclocking?
Overclocking is installing more physical cores and threads into a CPU
Overclocking is the unit within a CPU that allows a computer system to tell the time
Increasing number of pulses the CPUs clock generates per second by increasing power sent from the PSU
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