Chapter 5 Review

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The branch of computer science that studies computers in terms of their major functional units and how they work is known as computer organization.

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true

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Both RAM and ROM are memory chips into which information has been prerecorded during manufacture. True or False?

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False

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As computers become faster, memory access speeds are keeping pace.

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false

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The principle of locality states that when the computer uses something, it will probably use it again very soon.

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true

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In a two-level memory hierarchy, when the computer needs a piece of information, it looks in RAM first, then cache memory.

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false

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Registers can be accessed much more quickly than random access memory.

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true

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The instructions that can be decoded and executed by the control unit of a computer are represented in machine language.

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true

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The set of all operations that can be executed by a processor is called its I/O set.

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false

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The Von Neumann bottleneck is the inability of the sequential one-instruction-at-a-time computer Von Neumann model to handle today’s large-scale problems.

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true

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Memory locations are stored in row major order.

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true