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WorksheetsHardware/Software Yr10
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 10mins
What doesn’t affect the performance of the computer
Clock Speed
Number of Cores
The number of instructions in the program
Cache Size
If the processing speed goes from 1GHZ to 4GHZ and the processor is changed from an 8 core to a dual core processor – what is the exact effect on the performance of the computer?
The number of instructions executed per second quadruples
The number of instructions executed per second doubles
The number of instructions executed per second stays the same
The number of instructions executed per second is halved
Which is an example of an Embedded System:
PCs
Washing Machine
Laptops
Tablets
Processors don’t do the following
Operate in Hz
Execute Data
Execute Instructions
Process Data
What is held in cache?
All of the programming instructions
Instructions that have been processed
Commonly used instructions and data
Data that hasn’t been used for a long time
What component holds the address of the next instruction
Memory Data Register
Accumulator
Memory Address Register
Program Counter
What is held in ROM?
Operating System
Data currently in use
Bootstrap Loader
Instructions frequently used
What is the purpose of the accumulator?
To hold the results of a calculation
To hold the accumulation of instructions that are about to happen
To hold the accumulation of instructions that have happened
To perform arithmetic operations
Operating systems will allocate sections of RAM to the processes as part of?
Processor management
File management
Peripheral management
Memory management
