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1.1.1) Structure and function of the processor
(a) The Arithmetic and Logic Unit; ALU, Control Unit and Registers (Program Counter; PC, Accumulator; ACC, Memory Address Register; MAR, Memory Data Register; MDR, Current Instruction Register; CIR). Buses: data, address and control: how this relates to assembly language programs. (b) The Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle; including its effects on registers. (c) The factors affecting the performance of the CPU: clock speed, number of cores, cache. (d) The use of pipelining in a processor to improve
43  cards
1.1.2) Types of processor
(a) The differences between and uses of CISC and RISC processors. (b) GPUs and their uses (including those not related to graphics). (c) Multicore and Parallel systems.
14  cards
1.1.3) Input, Output and Storage Devices
What is an input device 1,
What are some examples of input d...,
What is a paper scanner 3
47  cards
1.2.1) Systems Software
What is an operating system 1,
Why is an os needed 2,
What does are the main functions ...
64  cards
1.2.2) Applications generation
What are the different types of a...,
Presentation software key features 2,
Spreadsheet key features 3
56  cards
1.2.3) Software Development
What is a sdlc 1,
What are the 7 steps of sdlc 2,
What happens in the analysis sect...
38  cards
1.2.4) Types of Programming Language
What are programming paradigms 1,
What are the different types of p...,
What is a procedural language 3
32  cards
1.3.1) Compression, Encryption and Hashing
Why do we use compression 1,
What does lossy compression do 2,
What happens in lossless compress...
26  cards
1.3.2) Databases
What is an entity 1,
What is a relational database 2,
What is an attribute 3
37  cards
1.3.3) Networks
Blank 1
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1.4.2) Data Structures
What is an array 1,
What is a record 2,
What is a list 3
47  cards
2.1.1) Thinking Abstractly
What is abstraction 1,
Why is abstraction needed 2,
What can abstraction facilitate 3
8  cards
2.2.1) Programming techniques
What are the advantages of recurs...,
Disadvantages of recursion 2,
What is tail recursion 3
17  cards

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