System Architecture
This part of the CPU fetches instructions from memory and decodes them.
What is the control unit?
Computers use this number system because it only has two digits: 0 and 1.
What is binary?
This type of network covers a small geographical area, such as a home or school.
What is a Local Area Network (LAN)?
This is a step-by-step process or set of rules for solving a problem.
What is an algorithm?
This function is used in Python to display output to the user.
What is print()?
This type of volatile memory stores data currently being used by the CPU.
What is RAM?
This unit of data is equivalent to 8 bits.
What is a byte?
This device is used to connect multiple devices on a network and directs data to its correct destination.
What is a router?
In a flowchart, this shape is used to represent a decision point.
What is a diamond?
In Python, this data type is used to store True or False values.
What is bool?
The performance of the CPU can be improved by increasing this characteristic, which is measured in Hertz.
What is the clock speed?
The hexadecimal number system is base 16. These two characters represent the decimal numbers 10 and 15.
What are A and F?
This security measure involves scrambling data so that it can only be read by someone with the correct key.
What is encryption?
This search algorithm works by repeatedly dividing a sorted list in half to find a target value.
What is binary search?
This Python statement allows you to execute a block of code repeatedly, as long as a condition is true.
What is a while loop?
During the fetch stage of the cycle, the CPU retrieves the next instruction from this specific memory location.
What is the Program Counter?
The number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in an image is known by this term.
What is color depth?
In this type of network topology, every device is directly connected to every other device.
What is a mesh topology?
This sorting algorithm repeatedly steps through a list, compares adjacent items, and swaps them if they are in the wrong order.
What is bubble sort?
This Python string method removes any leading and trailing whitespace from a string.
What is .strip()?
This small, fast type of memory inside the CPU temporarily holds the address of the next instruction to be executed.
What is the Memory Address Register (MAR)?
This character encoding system uses 16 bits to represent over 65,000 characters, supporting multiple languages and symbols.
What is Unicode?
This protocol is used to assign IP addresses automatically to web page servers
What is DNS?
This computational thinking technique involves breaking down a problem into smaller, more manageable parts.
What is decomposition?
This Python statement is used to handle errors and allows the program to continue running even if an exception occurs.
What is try/except?