Crash Course Computer Science #9 - Advanced CPU Designs

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Computers
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9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the early days of electronic computing, processors were typically made faster by...
improving the switching time of the transistors
making more circuits on the transistors
reducing the size of the processors
decreasing the transistors ability to process calculations quickly
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Last episode, we created a small program that did what?
added two numbers
multiplied two numbers
divided two numbers
subtracted two numbers
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Modern computer processors now have special circuits for specific things, such as...
(select all that apply)
graphics operations
decoding compressed video
encrypting files
doing math
4.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How many instructions did the Intel 4004 have?
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Data has to be transmitted between the CPU and RAM along a set of wires called a ______.
train
car
bus
track
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
A small piece of RAM located on the CPU - a cache - can only hold how much data?
Pick 2.
kilobytes
megabytes
gigabytes
terabytes
7.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
When data requested in RAM is already stored in the cache, it's called a (a) . If the data isn't in the cache, so you have to go to RAM, it's called a (b) . The cache can also be used like a (c) space, storing intermediate (d) when performing a longer or more complicated (e) .
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