Exam 16: Under the Hood

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

The decimal number 11 equals B in the ________ number system.

The earliest generation of electronic computers used ________ as switches.

________ is the final step of the CPU machine cycle.

What type of memory stores frequently used instructions or data needed by the CPU?

A single byte is composed of ten bits.

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

Unicode is a system for representing ________.

The ________ encoding scheme for character data uses 16 bits.

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

The special memory storage areas built into the CPU are called ________.

The electrical switches that are built using semiconductor layers are called ________.

________ is the semiconductor material used to make transistors.

________boosts a CPU's performance by working on more than one instruction at the same time.

Today's clock speeds are measured in megahertz (MHz).

________ are the most expensive, fastest memory in a computer.

A semiconductor is any material that can be controlled to either conduct electricity or prohibit the flow of electricity.

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

The Intel i7 Extreme Edition is a CPU that uses ________ processing.