Coding Chapter 5 Review

The branch of computer science that studies computers in terms of their major functional units and how they work is known as

• computer analytics

• computer organization

• programming

• grid computing

__ is memory into which information has been prerecorded during manufacture.

• Read-Only Memory (ROM)

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• Cache Memory

As computers become faster, memory access speeds are not keeping pace.

• True

• False

The principle of locality states that when the computer uses something, it will probably use it and the information around it again very soon.

• True

• False

In a two-level memory hierarchy, when the computer needs a piece of information, it looks in ______ first

• RAM

• ROM

• Cache

The instructions that can be decoded and executed by the control unit of a computer are represented in machine language.

• True

• False

The Von Neumann bottleneck is the inability of the sequential one-instruction-at-a-time Von Neumann model computer to handle today’s large-scale problems.

• True

• False

The memory data register (MDR) contains the ____ being fetched or stored.

• address of the cell

• data value

All of these are non-volatile memory EXCEPT

• RAM

• Disks

• Tapes

• Flash Drives

The sectors of a disk are placed in concentric circles called ______.

• Tracks

• Bits

• Cells

• None of the Above