Processor Components

What is the full name of the component referred to as the PC

• Product Counter
• Program Counter
• Packet Counter
• Personal Computer

During the F-E cycle, the PC is…

• Deleted
• Initialised
• Incremented
• Increased
• Decremented

The contents of the MBR are transferred to which other register during the fetch stage

• PC
• ALU
• CIR
• MAR

Which register stores the memory location of the next instruction

• MAR
• MBR
• PC
• CIR

Which register stores the memory location of the data to be retrieved

• MAR
• MBR
• PC
• CIR

How many parts are an instruction split into when decoded

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

The opcode tells the cpu…

• What data to use in the instructions
• What action the instruction is performing

Which register stores the data that has just been retrieved from RAM

• MAR
• MBR
• PC
• CIR

The operand tells the cpu…

• What data to use in the instructions
• What action the instruction is performing

Which of these registers stores the result of calculations

• MAR
• MBR
• Accumulator
• CIR