Exam 16: Tif 3: Under the Hood

A single byte is composed of ten bits.

Level 1 cache is located farther away from the CPU than Level 3 cache.

IEEE's ________ standard describes how numbers containing fractional parts are represented in the binary number system.

The earliest generation of electronic computers used ________ as switches.

Mainstreaming boosts CPU performance by enabling the CPU to work on more than one processing stage at a time.

The ASCII code is able to represent the alphabets of all modern and historic languages.

________ is the semiconductor material used to make transistors.

Mathematical operations and comparisons are performed in the ________.

Unicode is a system for representing ________.

OR and AND are examples of ________ operators.

A binary digit that represents a 0 or a 1 is called a(n) ________.

________ language consists of a series of 0s and 1s.

The CPU is the part of the ALU that performs mathematical operations and makes comparisons.

The ________ controls when the CPU moves to the next processing stage.

The ________ encoding scheme for character data uses 16 bits.

The ________ is used in tablet computers and smartphones.

The hexadecimal symbol B represents the decimal number ________.