CPU Progress Test - Grade 8.5

A processor is small enough to fit on your fingertip. Modern processors are so small they are called what?

• Macro-processors

• microprocessors

• nanoprocessors

It is another name for the processor at the center of your computer system.

• Control Policy Algorithm

• Central Preparation Upgrade

• Central Processing Unit

It is the unit that manages the work done by the CPU. It works out what the instruction means.

• Arithmetic and Logic Unit

• Control Unit

• The Clock

It does all the calculations in the CPU. It carries out instructions. It does calculations.

• Aritchmetic and Logic Unit

• Control Unit

• The Clock

It sends out regular electrical pulses. Every time it clicks one unit sends instruction to the other unit.

• Arithmetic and Logic Unit

• Control Unit

• The Clock

It connects the three parts of a CPU together. They are high speed connection that carry data around inside the CPU.

• Control Unit

• Arithmetic and Logic Unit

• Buses

The computer's memory is very close to the CPU. The computer's memory is sometimes called:

• Random Access Memory

• Secondary Storage

• Hard Drive

One of these is considered as a secondary storage. Choose the best answer.

• Random Access Memory

• A Flash Memory Drive

• Buses

What do you call the process wherein the CPU carries out instructions million of times?

• Run-Decode Cycle

• Decode-Execute Cycle

• Fetch-Execute Cycle

What is the order of the steps followed by the cycle that carries out the CPU instructions?

• Save-Execute-Decode-Fetch

• Fetch-Decode-Execute-Save

• Decode-Fetch-Save-Execute