Primary memory

A capacitor holds an electrical charge that is used to represent a 1 in binary. What is electricity measured in?

• Amperes

• Watts

• Ohms

• Volts

What is the maximum number of cores for 6 channels in a CPU?

• Two

• Four

• Six

• Eight

The lag time between one component of hardware waiting for another to execute an action, such as one core to another in a CPU, is called what?

• Latency

• Bandwidth

• Throughput

• Frequency

What is the very fast memory used for frequently called instructions, acting as an intermediary between the processor and the main memory?

• RAM

• Cache

• Hard Drive

• Register

A dual core processor can in ??? fetch and execute two instructions in the same time it takes a single core processor to fetch and execute just one instruction. What is the missing word?

• Theory

• Practice

• Reality

• Simulation

A clock speed of 3 gigahertz (GHz) can carry out about 3 ??? cycles per second. What is the missing word?

• Million

• Billion

• Trillion

• Thousand

What indicates how fast the CPU can run, measured in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz (GHz)?

• Clock speed

• Data rate

• Bus speed

• Transfer rate

The FDE cycle is the Fetch Decode and ??? cycle. What is the missing word?

• Execute

• Evaluate

• Examine

• Eliminate

Which type of memory is described as "super fast, super expensive, and tiny capacity" in the CPU architecture?

• Virtual Memory

• Solid State Memory

• CPU Register

• Physical Memory

What is the characteristic of virtual memory in the CPU architecture?

• Super fast, super expensive, tiny capacity

• Slow, cheap, large capacity

• Faster, expensive, small capacity

• Fast, priced reasonably, average capacity