Learning Checkpoint 2: Central Processing Unit (CPU)

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