Exam 6: Microprocessors

Which component requires a constant electrical charge and a periodic refresh of the circuits?

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

What technology is designed to help prevent damage to CPUs when they are installed?

__________ is done through jumpers,CMOS settings,or software configuration.

What performance-enhancing technique usually voids most manufacturers' warranties?

One billion cycles per second is equivalent to ____.

Name the two primary manufacturers of processors today.

Computers use __________ for the main system memory.

The ____________________ enables the CPU to communicate with the RAM.

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

Which of the following CPUs are targeted at the mobile device platform?

__________-bit processors can access up to 16 EB of RAM.

A catastrophic failure is usually indicated by any of the following EXCEPT:

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

What is a clock cycle?

What is a pipeline?

Intel designed ____________________ sockets to make CPU insertion and removal easier.

What reduces wait states by using built-in,very high-speed RAM called static RAM (SRAM)?

If the number of wires in a CPU's address bus is 20,what is the maximum amount of RAM the CPU can handle?

All of the following are stages in the pipelining process EXCEPT: