Chapter 03 Quiz (ITN106) - CPUs

What type of socket is used to hold a CPU in place?

How many clock cycles does the CPU require to act on a command?

Which type of processor is sometimes integrated with the CPU to handle certain tasks more efficiently, such as video processing?

Which type of socket package do Intel processors use?

How much RAM can a 64-bit processor theoretically access?

A ____________ is made up of 64 bits.

What kind of RAM comprises cache?

Which cache on the CPU is used first?

Which CPU is targeted at the mobile device platform?

How many bits make up a byte?

In today's computers, the CPU tells _______________ the clock speed it needs, and the clock chip then automatically adjusts for the CPU.

Because CPU makers cannot make the processors run much quicker, they instead _______________.

What results from a catastrophic error on a PC?

Which type of coolers are heat-sink and fan assemblies that are included with most Intel retail-boxed CPU?

What type of RAM is used for main system memory?

What newer technology automatically configures CPU multipliers and speeds?

One megabyte is equivalent to _______________ bytes.

Which technology allows a computer to run more than one operating system at a time?

What is applied to the CPU before attaching the heat-sink/fan assembly?

What is an important difference between desktops and mobile devices in terms of CPU needs?

Intel's Pentium and Celeron series of CPUs are intended for which target market?

What term defines the first cache that the CPU uses?

What type of RAM is used in the CPU's cache?

What is equivalent to 1024 bytes?

No CPU ever made has fewer than _______________ stages, but advancements in caching have increased the number of stages over the years.

Suppose the number of wires in a CPU's address bus is 20. What is the maximum amount of RAM the CPU can handle?

What keeps every stage of the processor busy on every click of the clock, making a CPU run more efficiently without increasing the clock speed?

A sudden CPU shutdown usually indicates what condition?

Newer CPUs process instructions and commands in what type of execution?

CPUs typically run at some factor of the clock speed. What makes this possible?

What chip, in modern CPUs, optimizes the flow of information into and out of the CPU?

What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?

What are the four stages of the pipelining process?

What typically connects a CPU to RAM?

In _______________, the cores in multicore CPUs to divide up work independently of the OS.

How much RAM can 32-bit processors access?

What type of socket package do AMD chips use?

What are the four general-purpose CPU registers?

What technology requires that the OS and applications be written specifically to handle multiple threads?

Four bits make up a _________________.