WorksheetsAQA GCSE Computer Science - 3.4.4 Systems architecture
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a core?
a)
A processing unit in a CPU.
b)
Pixels on a screen.
c)
The centre of an apple.
d)
Data store.
2.
What are cores used for?
a)
They receive instruction and perform them.
b)
Compost
c)
Illuminating the screen.
d)
Storing data.
3.
What is clock speed?
a)
How fast a cpu runs.
b)
How quickly time goes by.
c)
How fast the device charges.
d)
The frames per minute.
4.
What is clock speed measured in?
a)
Gigahertz
b)
M/s
c)
N/kg
d)
Decibels
5.
Name one factor affecting CPU performance
a)
cache size
b)
size of the CPU
c)
Your name
d)
whether or not you have good wifi
6.
What is a cache?
a)
It stores data so that future requests are quicker
b)
Not a real thing
c)
money spelt wrong
d)
a processing unit in a CPU
7.
What can a small amount of RAM also be known as
a)
cache
b)
not much
c)
Clock speed
d)
CPU
8.
What is an area for storing web pages?
a)
cache
b)
the internet
c)
RAN
d)
a core
9.
What chips are you to implement Cache memory?
a)
SRAM
b)
DRAM
c)
ARAM
d)
LRAM
10.
What does LRU stand for?
a)
Least recently used
b)
Last RAM used
c)
Low required usage
d)
not a thing
11.
What is a CPU thread?
a)
A virtual CPU
b)
How quickly time goes by.
c)
A CPU core
d)
The speed of the CPU
12.
Which answer is not a cache type?
a)
half-mapped cache
b)
fully associative cache
c)
N-way-set-associative cache
d)
direct-mapped cache
13.
What does a direct mapped cache type do?
a)
each main memory address maps to exactly one cache block
b)
each main memory address maps to exactly 10 cache blocks
c)
each main memory address maps to exactly 4 cache blocks
d)
each main memory address maps to exactly 2 cache blocks
14.
What is a motherboard?
a)
the main printed circuit board in general-purpose computers
b)
the mother of the board
c)
another word for CPU
d)
the keyboard
15.
What is a graphics card?
a)
The card that controls the output to the display screen
b)
The card on the case of the PC
c)
The card that controls the input devices
d)
The card that helps improve the speed of the CPU
16.
What does the word "SSD" stand for?
a)
Solid State Drive
b)
Soluble State Drive
c)
Solid Static Drive
d)
Static Solid Drive
17.
How many Megabytes is a Gigabyte
a)
1000mb
b)
10,000mb
c)
100mb
d)
10mb
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