HW2 Chapter 04

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______ 1. The electronic components and circuitry, such as the
processor and memory, usually are part of or are
connected to a circuit board called the ___. (44
motherboard)
______ 2. Devices outside the system unit often attach to ___ on the
system unit by a connector on a cable. (57 ports)
______ 3. A computer chip is a small piece of ___ on which
integrated circuits are etched. (60 semi-conducting
material)
______ 4. The main components in the system unit. The mother
board part includes: CPU, Memory, expansion slots, ports,
____, _____ .
(12 buses, system clock)
______ 5. A __________ is a chip with two or more separate
processors.
(46 multi-core processor)
______ 6. The control unit ___ each instruction issued by a program
and then initiates the appropriate action to carry out the
instruction.
(36 interprets)
______ 7. With __________, the processor begins fetching a second
instruction before it completes the machine cycle for the
first instruction.
(55 pipelining)
______ 8. Register functions include storing the __________ from
where an instruction was fetched, storing an instruction
while the control unit decodes it, storing data while the
ALU computes it, and storing the results of a calculation.
(40 location)
______ 9. The processor relies on a small quartz crystal circuit
called the __________ to control the timing of all computer

operation.
(67 system clock)
______ 10.When 8 bits are grouped together as a unit, they form a
__________. (13 byte)
______ 11.Two popular coding schemes are __________ and EBCDIC.
(8 ASCII)

______ 12.Memory stores three basic categories of items: (1) the

____ and other system software that control or maintain
the computer and its devices; (2) ____ that carry out a
specific task such as word processing; and (3) the data
being processed and resulting information.
(51 operating system, application programs)
______ 13.A megabyte (MB) equals approximately __________ bytes.
(2 1 million)
______ 14.What type of memory does not lose its contents when
power is removed from the computer. (50 nonvolatile
memory)
______ 15.L1 cache is built directly in the ___. (59 processor chip)
______ 16.An __________ is a socket on the motherboard that can
hold an adapter card. (31 expansion slot)
______ 17.An adapter card, sometimes called a (an) __________, is a
circuit board that enhances functions of a component of
the system unit and/or provides connections to
peripherals. (29 expansion card)
______ 18.A __________ is a device that connects to the system unit
and is controlled by the processor in the computer. (54
peripheral)
______ 19.A __________, also called the front side bus (FSB), is part of
the motherboard and connects the processor to main
memory.
(66 system bus)
______ 20.A ___ is a rectangular opening that typically holds disk
drives.
(25 drive bay)

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1. 1 million
2. 1 thousand
3. adapter card
4. address
5. address bus
6. ANSI
7. ASCII
8. bay
9. bus
10. buses, bays
11. buses, system clock
12. byte
13. cache
14. circuitry board
15. clock rate
16. clock speed
17. conducting material
18. connect device
19. control statements
20. copper
21. data
22. disk port
23. disk slot
24. drive bay
25. drive slot
26. executing
27. expansion bus
28. expansion card
29. expansion device
30. expansion slot
31. GBK
32. hardware
33. hot plugging
34. hundred million
35. interprets
36. interrupt
37. kilobit

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kilobyte
location
megabyte
memory chip
metal
motherboard
multi-center processor
multi-core processor
multiplexing
multi-task processor
multi-thread processor
nonvolatile memory
operating system,
application programs
operating system, utility
programs
PCI express bus
peripheral
pipelining
polymorphism
ports
power supply, buses
processor chip
semi-conducting material
slot
software system, application
programs
software system, utility
programs
SRAM
store
system bus
system clock
system clock, bays
system timer
system unit
transmit
volatile memory