Exam 9: Principles of Computer Operations

The process of executing a program is also called instruction ________ .

The common name for an integrated circuit is a computer ________ .

An alternative form of machine language that is expressed using letters and normal numbers to make it easier for humans to understand it is known as ________ language .

IC is short for ________ .

How many instructions do computers know?

The ability to control when ________ do and don't conduct electricity is the main process used in computer construction .

Assembly language allows humans to write the binary code that computers understand but using words instead of binary 0s and 1s .

The hardware implementation of the Fetch/Execute Cycle is the

The Fetch/Execute Cycle consists of four steps .

Blocks of four bytes are called words .

In Random Access Memory (RAM), what does the word "random"refer to?

Programs and their data must reside in the computer's ________ when the programs run .

In the Fetch/Execute Cycle, the action of retrieving the instruction's operands from memory occurs during the

On the computer, one billion clock ticks per second is called a

In the Fetch/Execute Cycle, the action of performing a machine instruction occurs during the

A form of a program that is directly executable by a computer is a(n)

Which of the following might be a single machine instruction?

Memory has a finite capacity .

Programs written in a high-level language are translated into assembly language and then assembled into binary . In other words, programs are ________ .

The process of converting code written in a high-level language to something a computer can understand is known as compiling .