Pearson 1CP2 - 3.1 - CPU Architecture

Who came up with the stored program concept?

• Bill Gates
• Alan Turing
• John von Neumann
• Steve Jobs

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

• Audio and text
• Software and hardware
• Images and videos
• Instructions and data

The Von Neumann architecture comprises of which two main components?

• Keyboard and Mouse
• Hard Drive and Monitor
• Operating System and Application Software
• Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Memory

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

• fiber optics
• ethernet cables
• wireless connections
• buses

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

• until the computer is turned off

• as long as is needed

• only for a minute after they are loaded

• as long as there is available RAM

When not in the main memory, where are instructions and data stored?

• Cache memory
• Secondary storage
• Virtual memory
• Tertiary storage

Main memory is usually referred to as...

• RAM
• Cache
• ROM
• Hard drive

Main memory is comprised of a collection of...

• Keyboard keys
• CPU cores
• Hard drives
• Memory locations

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

• unique address
• common address
• random address
• shared address

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

• Data can be read from or written to main memory.
• Data can be compressed in main memory
• Data can be encrypted in main memory
• Data can be deleted from main memory