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main memory - ✔✔The _________ stores data.
a. system bus
b. I/O
c. main memory
d. control unit
I/O - ✔✔The __________ moves data between the computer and its external environment.
a. data transport
b. I/O
c. register
d. CPU interconnection
system bus - ✔✔A common example of system interconnection is by means of a
__________.
a. register
b. system bus
c. data transport
d. control device
system interconnection - ✔✔A _________ is a mechanism that provides for communication
among CPU, main memory, and I/O.
a. system interconnection
b. CPU interconnection
c. peripheral
,d. processor
Registers - ✔✔_________ provide storage internal to the CPU.
a. Control units
b. ALUs
c. Main memory
d. Registers
ALU - ✔✔The __________ performs the computer's data processing functions.
a. Register
b. CPU interconnection
c. ALU
d. system bus
False - ✔✔The world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer was designed and
constructed at The Ohio State University.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔John Mauchly and John Eckert designed the ENIAC.
a. True
b. False
False - ✔✔The major drawback of the EDVAC was that it had to be programmed manually by
setting switches and plugging and unplugging cables.
a. True
b. False
,True - ✔✔The IAS is the prototype of all subsequent general-purpose computers.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔The IAS operates by repetitively performing an instruction cycle.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔Backward compatible means that the programs written for the older machines can
be executed on the new machine.
a. True
b. False
False - ✔✔A vacuum tube is a solid-state device made from silicon.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔Computers are classified into generations based on the fundamental hardware
technology employed.
a. True
b. False
False - ✔✔System software was introduced in the third generation of computers.
a. True
b. False
, True - ✔✔A wafer is made of silicon and is broken up into chips which consists of many gates
and/or memory cells plus a number of input and output attachment points.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔IBM's System/360 was the industry's first planned family of computers.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔Intel's 4004 was the first chip to contain all of the components of a CPU on a single
chip.
a. True
b. False
True - ✔✔Designers wrestle with the challenge of balancing processor performance with
that of main memory and other computer components.
a. True
b. False
False - ✔✔The Intel x86 evolved from RISC design principles and is used in embedded
systems.
a. True
b. False
False - ✔✔A common measure of performance for a processor is the rate at which
instructions are executed, expressed as billions of instructions per seconds (BIPS).
a. True
b. False
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