1. One of the main functions of an operating system is to provide an interface between __________ and machine. User Keyboard Microsoft Wang
2. A single-processor machine is one that can conduct only a single process at a time contains only a single CPU can connect in a network to only one other machine none of the above
3. A multi-processor machine can support as many as 64 CPUs True False I would like to use a free spin. You are upsetting my sock puppet.
4. Two general CPU designs are used in modern computers are the CISC and RISC processors. The ISC stands for International Standards Committee Indiana State Center Instruction Set Computer Nothing
5. The list of commands a CPU can understand is known as the ____________ set. Television Universal Instruction empty
6. The Intel® Pentium® processor is an example of a _____________ CPU IDE RISC RAID CISC
7. The main reason a RISC CPU is potentially faster than a CISC CPU is It does not require long-winded intructions More memory CISC CPUs lack cache Wheaties
8. Instruction piplelining is a processing technique used by _____ CPUs to improve performance. RISC CISC DISC TISC
9. One benchmark of the speed of a CPU is the number of instructions it can perform with each clock cycle. True False
10. Modern CPUs operate with internal clock speeds around _____ MHz 16 33 100 2000
11. Special memory that may reside on the CPU hardware and that can speed up computer operation is called ______ memory cache PC-100 DRAM EDO
12. The following are all distinctions between L1 and L2 cache EXCEPT: The amount of memory it holds Its use of virtual memory The order in which it is accessed Where it physically is located
13. The main function of a cache controller is controlling money flow controlling the flow of data to special memory controlling access times to CPU controlling shadowing of memory
14. A computer address bus is used to enable the computer to ________ speed up instructions False communicated with memory receive mail
15. How many memory locations can a 32-bit address bus access? 64,000 128,000 1,000,000,000 4,000,000,000
16. The first of the x86 line of widely used CPUs for desktop computers 8088 80286 80386 68000
17. The first popular graphical user interface for the PC was Windows95 Windows NT Windows 3.1 XWindows
18. The operating system shell is part of the OS that provides access to the user through commands or graphics contains the innermost, basic commands contains only the most basic, outer level commands none of the above
19. Windows for ___________ was the first graphical-oriented operating system for the PC that supported networking out-of-the-box Dummies Workgroups Free Business
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