Pearson 1CP2 - 3.1 - CPU Architecture

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Who came up with the stored program concept?

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John von Neumann

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Thanks to the stored program concept, what two things can both be stored in the computer's main memory?

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Instructions and data

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The Von Neumann architecture comprises of which two main components?

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Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Memory

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Main Memory and The CPU are connected via a series of...

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buses

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In Von Neumann Architecture, data and programming instructions are only stored for...

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as long as is needed

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Where are instructions and data stored when not in the main memory? Options: Cache memory, Secondary storage, Virtual memory, Tertiary storage

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Secondary storage

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Main memory is usually referred to as...

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RAM

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Main memory is comprised of a collection of...

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Memory locations

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Each memory location in main memory has its own...

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unique address

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What two things can happen to data, in relation to main memory?

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Data can be read from or written to main memory.