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WGU C952 Computer Architecture Terms to Know; Explained Correctly WGU C952 Computer Architecture Terms to Know; Explained Correctly Information revolution << correct answer >> Computers have led to a third revolution for civilization, with the _________________ taking its place ...

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WGU C952 Computer Architecture Terms to Know; Explained
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Information revolution << correct answer >> Computers have led to a third revolution for
civilization, with the _________________ taking its place alongside the agricultural and
the industrial revolutions.

Personal Computer (PC) << correct answer >> A computer designed for use by an
individual, usually incorporating a graphics display, a keyboard, and a mouse.

Server << correct answer >> A computer used for running larger programs for multiple
users, often simultaneously, and typically accessed only via a network.

Supercomputer << correct answer >> A class of computers with the highest
performance and cost; they are configured as servers and typically cost tens to
hundreds of millions of dollars.

Embedded computer << correct answer >> A computer inside another device used for
running one predetermined application or collection of software.

processor cores << correct answer >> Many embedded processors are designed using
______________, a version of a processor written in a hardware description language,
such as Verilog or VHDL.

Personal mobile devices (PMDs) << correct answer >> are small wireless devices to
connect to the Internet; they rely on batteries for power, and software is installed by
downloading apps. Conventional examples are smart phones and tablets.

Warehouse Scale Computers (WSCs) << correct answer >> Taking over from the
conventional server is Cloud Computing, which relies upon giant datacenters that are
now known as__________________________

Cloud computing << correct answer >> refers to large collections of servers that provide
services over the Internet; some providers rent dynamically varying numbers of servers
as a utility.

Software as a Service (SaaS) << correct answer >> delivers software and data as a
service over the Internet, usually via a thin program such as a browser that runs on local
client devices, instead of binary code that must be installed, and runs wholly on that
device. Examples include web search and social networking.

Multicore microprocessor: << correct answer >> A microprocessor containing multiple
processors ("cores") in a single integrated circuit.

,Terabyte (TB): << correct answer >> Originally 1,099,511,627,776 (240) bytes, although
communications and secondary storage systems developers started using the term to
mean 1,000,000,000,000 (1012) bytes.

tebibyte (TiB) << correct answer >> To reduce confusion, we now use the term
_______________ for 240 bytes, defining terabyte (TB) to mean 1012 bytes.

Moore's Law
. << correct answer >> __________________ states that integrated circuit resources
double every 18-24 months

abstractions << correct answer >> A major productivity technique for hardware and
software is to use________________ to characterize the design at different levels of
representation; lower-level details are hidden to offer a simpler model at higher levels.

common case << correct answer >> Making the________________ fast will tend to
enhance performance better than optimizing the rare case.

parallel << correct answer >> Since the dawn of computing, computer architects have
offered designs that get more performance by computing operations in
_______________.

pipelining << correct answer >> A particular pattern of parallelism is so prevalent in
computer architecture that it merits its own name: _______________ , which moves
multiple operations through hardware units that each do a piece of an operation, akin to
water flowing through a pipeline.

prediction << correct answer >> The idea of _________________ is that, in some cases
it can be faster on average to guess and start working rather than wait until you know
for sure, assuming that the mechanism to recover from a misprediction is not too
expensive and your prediction is relatively accurate.

hierarchy of memories << correct answer >> Architects have found that they can
address conflicting demands of fast, large, and cheap memory with a hierarchy of
memories, with the fastest, smallest, and most expensive memory per bit at the top of
the hierarchy and the slowest, largest, and cheapest per bit at the bottom.

dependable << correct answer >> Since any physical device can fail, we make systems
dependable by including redundant components that can take over when a failure
occurs and to help detect failures.

Systems software << correct answer >> Software that provides services that are
commonly useful, including operating systems, compilers, loaders, and assemblers.

Operating system << correct answer >> Supervising program that manages the
resources of a computer for the benefit of the programs that run on that computer.

, Compiler << correct answer >> A program that translates high-level language
statements into assembly language statements.

binary numbers << correct answer >> The two symbols for these two letters are the
numbers 0 and 1, and we commonly think of the computer language as numbers in
base 2, or binary numbers.

Binary digit << correct answer >> Also called a bit. One of the two numbers in base 2 (0
or 1) that are the components of information.

Instruction << correct answer >> A command that computer hardware understands and
obeys

Assembler << correct answer >> A program that translates a symbolic version of
instructions into the binary version.

Assembly language << correct answer >> A symbolic representation of machine
instructions.

Machine language << correct answer >> A binary representation of machine
instructions.

High-level programming language << correct answer >> A portable language such as C,
C++, Java, or Visual Basic that is composed of words and algebraic notation that can be
translated by a compiler into assembly language.

Input device << correct answer >> A mechanism through which the computer is fed
information, such as a keyboard.

Output device << correct answer >> A mechanism that conveys the result of a
computation to a user, such as a display, or to another computer.

liquid crystal display (LCD) << correct answer >> A display technology using a thin layer
of liquid polymers that can be used to transmit or block light according to whether a
charge is applied.

Active matrix display << correct answer >> A liquid crystal display using a transistor to
control the transmission of light at each individual pixel.

bit map << correct answer >> The image is composed of a matrix of picture elements,
or pixels, which can be represented as a matrix of bits, called a ____________

Pixel << correct answer >> The smallest individual picture element. Screens are
composed of hundreds of thousands to millions of pixels, organized in a matrix.

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