Chapter 03 Quiz (ITN106) - CPUs

What type of socket is used to hold a CPU in place?

ZIF

How many clock cycles does the CPU require to act on a command?

At least two

Which type of processor is sometimes integrated with the CPU to handle certain tasks more efficiently, such as video processing?

GPU

Which type of socket package do Intel processors use?

LGA

How much RAM can a 64-bit processor theoretically access?

16 EB

A ____________ is made up of 64 bits.

Quad word

What kind of RAM comprises cache?

SRAM

Which cache on the CPU is used first?

L1

Which CPU is targeted at the mobile device platform?

Intel Core i3

How many bits make up a byte?

8

In today's computers, the CPU tells _______________ the clock speed it needs, and the clock chip then automatically adjusts for the CPU.

The motherboard

Because CPU makers cannot make the processors run much quicker, they instead _______________.

Combine multiple CPUs on a single chip

What results from a catastrophic error on a PC?

Windows Stop error

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

OEM CPU coolers

What type of RAM is used for main system memory?

DRAM

What newer technology automatically configures CPU multipliers and speeds?

CPUID

One megabyte is equivalent to _______________ bytes.

1,048,576

Which technology allows a computer to run more than one operating system at a time?

Virtualization

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

Thermal paste

What is an important difference between desktops and mobile devices in terms of CPU needs?

Mobile devices need to consume less electricity

Intel's Pentium and Celeron series of CPUs are intended for which target market?

Budget Desktop PCs

What term defines the first cache that the CPU uses?

L1 cache

What type of RAM is used in the CPU's cache?

SRAM

What is equivalent to 1024 bytes?

1 kilobyte

No CPU ever made has fewer than _______________ stages, but advancements in caching have increased the number of stages over the years.

Four

Suppose the number of wires in a CPU's address bus is 20. What is the maximum amount of RAM the CPU can handle?

1,048,576 bytes

What keeps every stage of the processor busy on every click of the clock, making a CPU run more efficiently without increasing the clock speed?

Pipelines

A sudden CPU shutdown usually indicates what condition?

Overheating

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

Parallel

CPUs typically run at some factor of the clock speed. What makes this possible?

Multipliers

What chip, in modern CPUs, optimizes the flow of information into and out of the CPU?

IMC (Integrated Memory Controller)

What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?

4 GHz

What are the four stages of the pipelining process?

Fetch, Decode, Execute, and Write

What typically connects a CPU to RAM?

EDB

In _______________, the cores in multicore CPUs to divide up work independently of the OS.

Multicore processing

How much RAM can 32-bit processors access?

Up to 4 GB

What type of socket package do AMD chips use?

PGA

What are the four general-purpose CPU registers?

 

AX, BX, CX, and DX

What technology requires that the OS and applications be written specifically to handle multiple threads?

Hyper-Threading

Four bits make up a _________________.

nibble