Systems architecture quiz

1
What is a general purpose computer?
A) A computer found in a digital watch
B A computer designed to perform more than one task

A small computer that forms part of a larger system

2
What is clock speed measured in?

Bytes

Hertz

Seconds

3
Which of the following are components of the central processing unit (CPU)?

Registers, read only memory (ROM) and cache

Registers, read only memory (ROM) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

Registers, cache and arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

4
Which central processing unit (CPU) component makes logical decisions?

Control unit (CU)

Cache

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

5
What is a register?

A small amount of high-speed random access memory contained within the processor

A small amount of high-speed read only memory contained within the processor

A small computer that forms part of a larger system

 6
What is a core?

A second processing unit within a control unit (CU)

A system that has many processors

A processing unit within a CPU

7
What are the three types of bus?

Address, control and instruction

Address, control and data

Address, data and instruction

8
Which of these statements about Von Neumann architecture is true?

Only data is stored in primary memory

Only instructions are stored in primary memory

Data and instructions are both stored in primary memory

9
Which register holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched from memory?

Program counter

Memory address register (MAR)

Current instruction register (CIR)

10
What is an embedded system?

A system that has many processors

A computer designed to perform more than one task

A small computer that forms part of a larger system