G11 Hardware

Question 1

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

Answer 1

Performs the calculations and logic comparisons

Question 2

Control Unit (CU)

Answer 2

Executes each instruction

Question 3

Registers

Answer 3

Stores current instruction

Question 4

Accumulator

Answer 4

Type of register that stores result of each instructions

Question 5

Serial Processing

Answer 5

Processor that breaks down sets of instructions sequentially

Question 6

Parallel Processing

Answer 6

Processor that breaks down multiple sets of instructions

Question 7

Hyperthreading

Answer 7

Multiple registers on one chip

Question 8

Thread

Answer 8

A set of instructions

Question 9

Process

Answer 9

The program that is to be processed

Question 10

Context Switching

Answer 10

Switching between two processes

Question 11

Multiprocessing

Answer 11

Multiple cores on a CPU

Question 12

Level 1 cache

Answer 12

Memory built on the main circuits of the CPU

Question 13

Level 2 cache

Answer 13

Larger memory away from the main circuits of the CPU

Question 14

Level 3 cache

Answer 14

Largest cache on the board closer to the CPU than the RAM