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WorksheetsOCR Sys Arch J277
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Q1 The CPU is?
Control processing unit
Central Process Unified
Centralised Process Unit
Central Processing Unit
Q2 The processor
Carries out instructions
Is main memory
Is secondary storage
Is an input device
Q3 The main computer components are?
Input/Output/CPU/Main memory
CPU/Main memory/Secondary storage
Input/Output/CPU/Main memory/Secondary storage
CPU/Main memory/Secondary storage
Q 4: This is a secondary storage?
CPU
GPU
USB
RAM
Question 1: Processor doesn’t do the following (1-4)
Process data
Execute instructions
Execute data
Operate in Hz
Question 2: The part of a processor in which instructions are executed is known as? (1-4)
Core
Centre
Execution
Instruction centre
Question 3: What acts as an intermediary between the processor and the main memory? (6-9
Bus
User
Cache
Clock
Question 4: What is held in cache? (5-6)
All the programming instructions
Commonly used instructions and data
Instructions that have been processed
Data that hasn’t been used for a long time
Question 5: This would perform an operation such as 5+8 ? (1-4)
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Accumulator
Cache
Control Unit
Questions 6: What is held in ROM? (1-4)
Data currently in use
Bootstrap loader
Instructions frequently used
Operating System
Question 7: This carries address of the next instruction that will be fetched (4-6)
Address bus
Data bus
Control bus
System bus
Question 8: What is a property of an address bus? (4-6
Carries data and instructions
Uni-directional
Bi-directional
Carries control signals
Question 9: What is transferred down the data bus? (4-6)
Data only
Addresses only
Data and instructions
Data, instructions and addresses
Question 10: What accurately describes a peripheral? (1-4
A component of a computer system
A device that is not directly connected to the CPU
A device that is directly connected to the CPU
A device that is plugged in
Question 11: This is not a type of secondary storage (1-4)
Blu-Ray Drive/Disc
Flash Memory
Hard Disk Drive
RAM
Question 12: What is the purpose of the accumulator? (4-6
To perform arithmetic operations
To hold the results of a calculation
To hold the accumulation of instructions that have happened
To remember the previous instruction being worked on
