Exam 5: Computer Systems Organization

There are ____ bytes in a gigabyte.

During the ____ phase, the control unit circuitry generates the necessary sequence of control signals and data transfer signals to the other units of the computer to carry out the instruction.

The principle of locality states that when the computer uses something, it will probably use it again very soon.

To understand how computers process information, we must study computers as collections of ____ that perform tasks such as information processing, information storage, computation, and data transfer functional units.

Other than clock speed, what is an accurate measure of machine speed?

Explain what a register is and how it differs from random access memory cells.

MIMD parallel processing is also called ____.

The acronym ____ is frequently used to refer to the memory unit of a computer.

The Memory Data Register contains the address of the cell being fetched or stored._________________________

To alert the computer that an input/output operation is done, a(n) ____ is transmitted to the processor.

The ____ holds the address of the next instruction to be executed.

The set of all operations that can be executed by a processor is called its I/O set.

When a computer needs a piece of information, does it immediately perform the memory fetch operation? If not, what does it do?

Registers can be accessed much more quickly than random access memory.

What is cluster computing?

It is the task of the ____ to fetch and execute instructions.

The ____ machine language instructions alter the normal sequential flow of control.

If a computer has a maximum of 2N memory cells, then each address field in a machine language instruction must be ____ bits wide to enable us to address every cell.

In a direct access storage device, every unit of information has a unique ____________________.

Computer manufacturers use a standard cell size of eight ____________________.