What is the potential advantage of a dual-core processor over a single-core processor?
- Up to double the clock speed
- Up to double the energy efficiency
- Up to double the processing capacity
- Up to double the cache size
Which phase retrieves the next instruction from the computer's memory and places it into the CPU?
- Decode
- Execute
- Fetch
- Store
What does CPU clock speed represent?
- The number of processor cores
- The speed of data transfer between CPU and RAM
- The frequency at which the CPU processes instructions
- The size of the CPU cache
Which of the following statements about embedded systems is true?
- They are cheap to manufacture
- They have a large amount of primary storage
- They have a large amount of secondary storage
- They have a fast internal processor
What is the missing word? Input - ______ - Output
- Process
- Compute
- Storage
- Save
Which architecture allows instructions and data to share the same memory in the fetch-decode-execute cycle?
- RISC architecture
- CISC architecture
- Harvard architecture
- Von Neumann architecture
What does a graphics tablet function as?
- Output device
- Input device
- Both input and output device
- Processing device
Which component is responsible for keeping track of the memory address of the next instruction to be fetched?
- Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
- Control Unit (CU)
- Program Counter (PC)
- Memory Unit (MU)
Which CPU component stores instructions and data currently in use?
- Control unit
- Registers
- Arithmetic logic unit
- Cache memory
How does the efficiency of the fetch-decode-execute cycle impact a computer's processing speed?
- Slows down processing speed
- No impact on processing speed
- Optimisations contribute to faster performance
- Reduces memory storage
