Software Overview
Operating Systems
Hadware
Random
100
Result Return
What is the fifth step of the Fetch Cycle?
100
POST
What is power on self test?
100
better known as the box
What is the system unit?
100
can contain data without power source
What is nonvolatile memory?
200
stores the program running and data on which the program operates.
What is memory?
200
gets the system started
What is ROM BIOS?
200
CPU
What is the Central processing unit?
200
located between cpu and main memory
What is cache?
300
Process of executing a program
What is instruction interpretation?
300
memory that requires constant power source
What is volatile memory?
300
program pointer
What is register?
400
determines rate of the F/E cycle
What is the computer clock?
400
Flash drive
What is near-online storage?
500
Result of execution is returned to the memory location specified by the destination address
What is result return?
500
basic operating system
What is Microsoft Windows?
500
determines what the program instruction means and how it is to be executed
What is control unit?
500
billions of ticks in one second
What is clock speed?
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