Abreviations
Fetch/Execute Cycle
Operating System
Ram
CPU Componets
100
(I/O) stands for?
What is Input and Output Unit?
100
It is responsible for determining the rate of the F/E cycle?
What is the Computer Clock?
100
Controls computers use of hardware resources.
What is the Operating System?
100
Data is accessed at electronic speeds
What is Random Access Memory?
100
Determines what the program instructions mean and it is executed.
What is a Decoder?
200
PC stands for?
What is the Program Counter?
200
The wires and circuits which information moves in and out of the computer.
What is The Input and Output Unit?
200
More than one CPU running at the same time.
What is Multiprocessing?
200
It stores your files as you work on them
What is Memory?
200
This holds data to be processed.
What is Registars?
300
ALU
What is Arithmetic/Logic Unit?
300
Responsible for fetching instructions from memory, decoding them, and fetches the operands used in it.
What is the Control Unit?
300
Assigns partitions of memory to each running program.
What is OS partitions memory?
300
Located between main memory and the CPU
What is Cache?
300
Temporarily holds results of arithmetic or logical systems.
What is Accumulator?
400
ID stands for in the Fetch/Execute Cycle?
What is Instruction Decode?
400
Stores the program running and the data on which the program operates.
What is Memory?
400
Part of the disk as an extension of RAM.
What is Virtual Memory?
400
The Caches various sizes of capacity for memory
What is L1, L2 and L3?
400
This gets the next program instructions from the RAM
What is Fetch?
500
Redundant array of Inexpensive Disks
What does RAID?
500
Interpreting commands build in its own language (executing a program)
What is Instruction Interpretation?
500
Icons and the mouse are part of this Interface.
What is Graphical Interface?
500
You can speed up your computer if your Ram is at itscapacity by adding this?
What is a bigger hard drive?
500
No longer has the means to get the data
What is Obsolescence?