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How many clock cycles does the CPU require to act on a command?
What is at least two
100

Temporary storage (worktables) of a cpu are called.

What is registers

100
CPUs typically run faster than the clock. What do they use to do this?
What is multipliers
100

What typically connects a CPU to RAM?

What is MCC (Memory controller chip)

100

The communication between the CPU and the Motherboard is called?

What is EDB (External Data Bus)

200

What stores the data that the CPU actively uses?

What is RAM

200
Which of the following terms is used to define the first cache that the CPU uses?
What is L1 cache
200

Which component sores the data that the CPU actively uses?

What is RAM?

200
What is the benefit of a smaller process?
What is cooler
200

What is one billion cycles per second equivalent to?

What is 1 GHz

300
The CPU uses a series of actions to complete a task. What is the series of actions called?
What is pipeline
300
What kind of RAM is cache typically made of?
What is SRAM
300

What is 1,048,576 bytes?

What is a megabyte?

300

A series of commands sent to a CPU in a specific order fir performing a certain task.

What is a program?

300
Because CPU makers can't make the processors run much quicker, they are instead doing what?
What is combining multiple CPUs on a single chip
400
Which of the following is equivalent to 1024 bytes?
What is 1 kilobyte
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What is 16 bits called?

What is Word

400

What is  used by the CPU or a direct memory access (DMA) enabled device to locate the physical address to communicate read/write commands.

What is the address bus?

400

What is it called when the cpu saves energy by running slower when demand is light?

What is throttling

400
In the Pentium D, what does the D stand for?
What is dual, as in two
500

It does all the calculations in a CPU

What is ALU (Arithmatic Logic Unit)

500
What cache was historically on the motherboard, but now often comes on the CPU?
What is L2
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Keep track of variations of CPUs within models

What is code names?

500
Which is the housing for the Intel Itanium CPU?
What is PGA
500
If the number of wires in a CPU's address bus is 20, what is the amount of RAM the CPU can handle?
What is 220
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