ch4_MicroProcessors

Question 1

What is a registrar

Answer 1

Worktables, tiny storage areas, that are 16 bits wide, on the CPU that hold charged binary commands.

Question 2

What are the core CPU components?

Answer 2

Speed 
External Data Bus
Address Bus
CPU Code book = Machine Language
Registrar

Question 3

What is the External Data Bus

Answer 3

Used to communicate from the CPU and the RAM

Question 4

What is the Address Bus

Answer 4

Enables the CPU to communicate with the MCC

Question 5

How does the CPU represent commands

Answer 5

On or Off, 1 or 0

Question 6

What are the four general purpose registrars

Answer 6

AX BX CX DX

Question 7

What is the Clock Wire

Answer 7

The clock wire tells the CPU that there is another piece of data waiting to be processed. It may take many cycles for the data to be processed.
1 Hz = 1 cycle

Question 8

What is a Clock Cycle

Answer 8

The voltage that must be applied to the CLK wire

Question 9

What is the clock speed?

Answer 9

the max number of clock cycles

Question 10

What determines the speed

Answer 10

The system crystal, quartz oscillator

Question 11

How does RAM work

Answer 11

Like a spreadsheet, each line of memory is addressed and holds either a 1 or 0.

Question 12

How does RAM stay charged

Answer 12

DRAM is charged by the semiconductors on the RAM stick

Question 13

How is data handled on the RAM

Answer 13

MCC grabs the contents of any line of RAM to place on the EDB.

Question 14

How do the CPU and MCC communicate

Answer 14

Address Bus

Question 15

Why does the number of wires on the address bus matter?

Answer 15

The number of wires is equal to the amount of RAM that the CPU can handle

Question 16

Which line of CPU is meant for the enthusiast/main stream build (Intel and AMD)?

Answer 16

Intel = Core i7
AMD = A Series or FX

Question 17

Which CPU is recommended for the budget PC

Answer 17

Intel = Pentium or Celeron
AMD = Sempron or Athlon

Question 18

Which CPU is recommended for the Portable/Mobile CPU

Answer 18

Intel = Core M
AMD = Atom A Series

Question 19

What CPU is recommended for a server

Answer 19

Xeon or Opteron

Question 20

What are the 8 features of CPUs

Answer 20

Clock Multiplier
64 or 32 bit processing
Virtualization Support
Parallel Execution
Multicore Processing
Integrated MCC
Integrated Graphics
Security

Question 21

What does the clock multiplier mean

Answer 21

CPU can run at a multiple of the clock speed

Question 22

What is pipelining

Answer 22

Get a command from data bus, calculate, sed result
or
Fetch
Decode
Execute
write

Question 23

What would stall a computer

Answer 23

If teh RAM speed doesn’t match the CPU speed

Question 24

Why is a cache important

Answer 24

Static RAM inside the CPU preloads instructions

Question 25

What are threads

Answer 25

programs broken down into little pieces

Question 26

What is the front side bus

Answer 26

Address bus and external data bus connecting the CPU , MCC and RAM

Question 27

What is teh Backside Bus

Answer 27

connecting the CPU and the l2 chache

Question 28

What are the 6 Intel Socket types to remember?

Answer 28

775
1155
1156
1366
1150
2011
1151

Question 29

How do you overclcok a CPU

Answer 29

sometimes by moving the CMOS pins or adjusting within the BIOS, The voltage going into the cpu will need to be changed.

Question 30

What is another name for LGA775

Answer 30

Socket T

Penitum, Celeron, Core

Question 31

What is another name for LGA 1155

Answer 31

Socket H2

Question 32

What is another name for LGA 1156

Answer 32

Socket H/H1

Question 33

What is another name for LGA 1366

Answer 33

Socket B

Question 34

What is another name for LGA 1150

Answer 34

Socket H3

Question 35

What is another name for LGA 2011

Answer 35

Socket R

Question 36

What is another name for LGA 1151

Answer 36

Socket H4

Question 37

What are the features of Socket FM2

Answer 37

904 Pins
AMD CPU
PGA packaging

Question 38

What are the features of Socket AM3+

Answer 38

942 pins
PGA-ZIF
AMD