Deck 4: Microprocessors

Question 1

Suppose the number of wires in a CPU's address bus is 20.What is the maximum amount of RAM the CPU can handle?

A)1,048,576 bytes
B)302 bytes
C)260 megabits
D)2120 kilobytes

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which component requires a constant electrical charge and a periodic refresh of the circuits?

A)DRAM
B)SRAM
C)MCC
D)GPU

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In today's computers, the CPU tells _______________ the clock speed it needs, and the clock chip then automatically adjusts for the CPU.

A)the motherboard
B)RAM
C)the address Bus
D)the hard disk

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How many bits make up a byte?

A)4
B)8
C)16
D)32

Question 5

CPUs typically run at some factor of the clock speed.What makes this possible?

A)Dividers
B)Speed enhancers
C)Speed uppers
D)Multipliers

Question 6

Four bits make up a _______________.

A)byte
B)nibble
C)quad
D)word

Question 7

How many clock cycles does the CPU require to act on a command?

A)At least two
B)At least three
C)At least four
D)At least five

Question 8

What typically connects a CPU to RAM?

A)Bus
B)Clock
C)MCC
D)EDB

Question 9

Intel's Pentium and Celeron series of CPUs are intended for which target market?

A)Mobile devices
B)Budget Desktop PCs
C)Servers
D)Mainstream/enthusiast desktop

Question 10

What is an important difference between desktops and mobile devices in terms of CPU needs?

A)Mobile devices need to consume more electricity.
B)Desktops run with less heat.
C)Mobile devices need to consume less electricity.
D)Desktops require extended battery life.

Question 11

Al of the machine language commands that the CPU understands make up its _______________.

A)MCC
B)instruction set
C)register sequence
D)IMC

Question 12

Which CPU is targeted at the mobile device platform?

A)Intel Atom
B)AMD Opteron
C)Intel Xeon
D)Intel Pentium

Question 13

What is equivalent to 1024 bytes?

A)1 kilobyte
B)1 megabyte
C)1 nanobyte
D)1 terabyte

Question 14

What newer technology automatically configures CPU multipliers and speeds?

A)CPUID
B)Jumpers
C)MMX
D)SRAM

Question 15

A _______________ is made up of 64 bits.

A)byte
B)nibble
C)quad word
D)double word

Question 16

What type of RAM is used for main system memory?

A)DRAM
B)SRAM
C)BRAM
D)CRAM

Question 17

One megabyte is equivalent to _______________ bytes.

A)1,048
B)1,048,576
C)10,048,576
D)100,048, 576

Question 18

What are the four general-purpose CPU registers?

A)AX, BX, YX, and ZX
B)EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX
C)RAX, RBX, RCX, and RDX
D)AX, BX, CX, and DX

Question 19

One billion cycles per second is equivalent to _______________.

A)1 gigahertz
B)1 hertz
C)1 megahertz
D)1 terahertz

Question 20

Which component stores the data that the CPU actively uses?

A)CD
B)Floppy diskette
C)Hard drive
D)RAM

Question 21

No CPU ever made has fewer than _______________ stages, but advancements in caching have increased the number of stages over the years.

A)two
B)three
C)four
D)five

Question 22

How much RAM can 32-bit processors access?

A)Up to 16 EB
B)Up to 16 GB
C)Up to 4 GB
D)Up to 4 EB

Question 23

Which technology effectively turns the CPU into two CPUs on one chip?

A)Emulation
B)Multithreading
C)Multicore processing
D)Virtualization

Question 24

In _______________, the cores in multicore CPUs to divide up work independently of the OS.

A)multiprocessor processing
B)multicore processing
C)hyper-threading
D)multi-threading

Question 25

Which technology allows a computer to run more than one operating system at a time?

A)Static RAM
B)Pipelining
C)Virtualization
D)Caching

Question 26

Which type of processor is sometimes integrated with the CPU to handle certain tasks more efficiently, such as video processing?

A)L2
B)MCC
C)IMC
D)GPU

Question 27

What keeps every stage of the processor busy on every click of the clock, making a CPU run more efficiently without increasing the clock speed?

A)Cores
B)Threads
C)Pipelines
D)Cycles

Question 28

How much RAM can a 64-bit processor theoretically access?

A)4 GB
B)16 GB
C)4 EB
D)16 EB

Question 29

Which cache on the CPU is used first?

A)L3
B)L2
C)L1
D)L0

Question 30

What kind of RAM comprises cache?

A)Fast RAM
B)Cool RAM
C)Multi-RAM
D)SRAM

Question 31

What are the four stages of the pipelining process?

A)Fetch, Decode, Execute, and Write
B)Read, Write, Fetch, and Execute
C)Read, Write, Encode, and Decode
D)Fetch, Decode, Encode, and Write

Question 32

What term defines the first cache that the CPU uses?

A)L1 cache
B)L2 cache
C)L3 cache
D)L4 cache

Question 33

What cache was historically on the motherboard, but now often comes on the CPU?

A)L1
B)L2
C)frontside cache
D)backside cache

Question 34

Newer CPUs process instructions and commands in what type of execution?

A)Linear
B)Parallel
C)Serial
D)Caching

Question 35

Because CPU makers cannot make the processors run much quicker, they instead _______________.

A)combine multiple CPUs on a single chip
B)alternate L1 and L2 cache onto the motherboard
C)make the RAM run quicker
D)eliminate the use of hyper-threading

Question 36

What is the biggest and slowest cache?

A)L0
B)L1
C)L2
D)L3

Question 37

What type of RAM is used in the CPU's cache?

A)BRAM
B)CRAM
C)DRAM
D)SRAM

Question 38

What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?

A)3 GHz
B)4 GHz
C)5 GHz
D)8 GHz

Question 39

What technology requires that the OS and applications be written specifically to handle multiple threads?

A)Emulation
B)Multicore processing
C)Hyper-threading
D)Virtualization

Question 40

What chip, in modern CPUs, optimizes the flow of information into and out of the CPU?

A)IMC
B)MCC
C)SRAM
D)DRAM

Question 41

Which type of coolers are heat-sink and fan assemblies that are included with most Intel retail-boxed CPU?

A)Liquid coolers
B)OEM CPU coolers
C)Specialized CPU coolers
D)Internal coolers

Question 42

A sudden CPU shutdown usually indicates what condition?

A)Faulty RAM
B)Overclocking
C)Overheating
D)Faulty IMC

Question 43

The system crystal is a quartz oscillator soldered to the _______________.

Question 44

What performance-enhancing technique usually voids most manufacturers' warranties?

A)Overclocking
B)Underclocking
C)Overpowering
D)Undercooling

Question 45

A(n) _______________ is a series of commands sent to a CPU in a specific order for the CPU to perform work.

Question 46

What results from a catastrophic error on a PC?

A)Sudden reboot
B)Red Screen of Death
C)Pin Wheel error
D)Windows Stop error

Question 47

Which type of socket package do Intel processors use?

A)LGA
B)PGA
C)L1
D)L2

Question 48

What is applied to the CPU before attaching the heat-sink/fan assembly?

A)Alcohol prep
B)Protective film
C)Thermal compound
D)Glue

Question 49

In computers, the _______________ system describes the state of a wire at any given moment.

Question 50

Adding 1 to the number already in the CX register, denoted by 01000001, is an example of real _______________ language for the Intel 8088.

Question 51

The CPU's instruction set is comprised of all the _______________ commands that the CPU understands.

Question 52

The _______________, which sends a signal to the clock chip, determines the speed at which a CPU and the rest of the PC operate.

Question 53

What performance enhancement is accomplished through jumpers, CMOS settings, or software configuration?

A)Multicore processing
B)Virtualization
C)Hyper-threading
D)Overclocking

Question 54

The temporary storage areas (worktables) of a CPU are called _______________.

Question 55

What type of socket package do AMD chips use?

A)LGA
B)PGA
C)VGA
D)GPU

Question 56

What type of socket is used to hold a CPU in place?

A)ZIF
B)ZAF
C)ZAP
D)ZOO

Question 57

In the _______________ system, the number 1 represents the On state and the number 0 represents the Off state.

Question 58

The communication device of the CPU is called the _______________.

Question 59

What type of socket does not require any force when installing the processor with the socket?

A)Socket Lock
B)LGA
C)PGA
D)ZIF

Question 60

The _______________ performs most of the calculations that make your computer a computer.

Question 61

All modern CPUs run at some multiple of the _______________ speed.

Question 62

Intel's _______________ technology, for example, enables the CPU to run in very low power mode and scale up automatically if the user demands more power from the CPU.

Question 63

Originally, the cache on the CPU was called the _______________ cache because it was the one the CPU first tried to use.

Question 64

SRAM used to preload as many instructions as possible and keep copies of already run instructions and data in case the CPU needs to work on them again is called a(n) _______________.

Question 65

A single charge to the clock wire is called a(n) _______________.

Question 66

Mobile processors extend battery charge by using less _______________ than the processors used in desktop computers.

Question 67

In PCs, _______________ transfers and stores data to and from the CPU in byte-sized chunks.

Question 68

Devices that hold ones and zeros that the CPU accesses are known generically as _______________.

Question 69

The _______________ contains special circuitry so it can grab the contents of any single line of RAM and place that data or command on the EDB.

Question 70

The device that retrieves data from RAM and places it on the external data bus is called the _______________.

Question 71

The four steps or stages of a CPU, in order, are _______________, _______________, execute, and write.

Question 72

Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors are intended for the _______________ market.

Question 73

Today's CPUs report to the motherboard through a function called _______________, and the speed and multiplier are set automatically.

Question 74

Computers use _______________ for the main system memory.

Question 75

The circuits inside the CPU are organized in a conveyer-belt fashion called a(n) _______________.

Question 76

RAM is arranged in _______________-sized rows.

Question 77

RAM size is measured in _______________.

Question 78

Eight _______________ is called a byte.

Question 79

The CPUs of _______________ devices must consume as little electricity as possible, to conserve battery life and limit heat.

Question 80

The _______________-bit address bus can address 16 EB of RAM.