Show:
General
CPU
CPU 2
Memory
Random
100

The main part of a personal computer that contains the motherboard, memory, drives, and ports.

What is the Case or Tower?

100
This part of the CPU directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
What is the control unit?
100
The speed of the operations is measure using this.
What is MIPS (Millions of Instructions Per Second)?
100
Size of memory is measured by the number of these available?
What are bytes?
100
Used to store data, instructions and information.
What is memory?
200
This contains many of the electronic components of the system unit.
What is the Motherboard?
200
This operation of the control unit involves getting information from memory.
What is fetching (to fetch)?
200
Performs the execution part of the machine cycle such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
What is the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)?
200
One million bytes.
What is a megabyte?
200
CPU is an acronym for this.
What is Central Processing Unit?
300
Interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer (brains of the computer)
What is the Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
300
This operation of the control unit involves translating the instruction.
What is decoding?
300
This is when the CPU begins execution of a second instruction before the first instruction is completed resulting in faster processing.
What is pipelining?
300
One thousand bytes.
What is a kilobyte?
300
Fetch, decode, execute and store are the four operations of what?
What is the control unit?
400
It is housed in a single chip called the microprocessor.
What is the CPU?
400
This operation of the control unit involves carrying out the command.
What is executing?
400
Temporary storage location by the CPU.
What is registers?
400
This type of memory cannot be modified.
What is read only memory (ROM)?
400
The system clock is measured using this.
What is megahertz (MHz)?
500
Three application software that we have use so far in Computer Applications.
What are Word, Excel and Access?
500
This operation of the control unit involves writing the result to memory.
What is storing?
500
Synchronizes all computer operations.
What is a system clock?
500
When the computer starts in the system unit, operating system files are loaded from a hard disk to this type of memory.
What is random access memory (RAM)?
500
Small ceramic or metal component with fins on its surface that is designed to absorb and ventilate heat produced by electrical components.
What is a heat sink (or heat pipe for laptops)?