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Processor and Computer
100
This computer component controls the operation of the computer and performs its data processing functions.
What is Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
100

This significantly improves the CPU's performance without releasing more heat (not cache).

What is a Core?

200

This is the time it takes for a packet to travel from point A to point B and back.

What is latency?

200
This component performs just the computer’s data processing function.
What is Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)?
300
This is the full name of EEPROM.
What is Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-only Memory?
400

These cycles are parts of the instruction cycle, and they are followed by the execute cycle.

What is fetch and decode cycles?

400

These 2 different components are used by the processor to store instructions and data fetched from internal/external memory.

What is cache and register?

400

These 2 definitions describe PCI and PCIe.

What are bus and point-to-point interconnect?

400

This is 2^10.

What is 1024?

400

These two words define what a computer does and how it does it.

What are architecture and organization?

500
This register specifies the address in memory of the word to be written from or read into the MBR register.
What is Memory Address Register (MAR)?
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