NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic
Unit 5 Answers
1.
Which company produces CPUs, chipsets, motherboards, and networking technologies?
a. AM
b. Intel
c. Motorola
d. IBM
2.
Which of these has the fastest clock speed?
a. FSB
b. Motherboard RAM
c. CPU
d. USB 3.0
3.
A processor chip that contains two physical CPUs is called:
a. dual-core.
b. quad-core.
c. multi-threaded.
d. hyper-threaded.
4.
Intel initially added multimedia instructions to its CPUs called:
a. Dnow!
b. GrafX.
c. SSE.
d. MMX.
5.
This type of cache is built directly into the CPU core.
a. Level 1
b. Level 2
c. Level 3
d. RAM cache
6.
Which is an example of an L2 cache size?
a. 450 MHz
b. Socket 370
c. 256 KB
d. LGA-771
7.
Which socket is used by an AMD processor?
a. Slot 1
b. Socket A
c. Socket 775
d. LGA-1366
8.
An Intel Core 2 Quad chip contains __________ processor cores.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 8
NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic
Unit 5 Answers
9.
What is not a difference between Intel and AMD processors?
a. Socket type
b. Microcode
c. x86 architecture
d. Cache size
10.
Processing two execution threads in a single processor is called:
a. hyper-threading.
b. multi-threading.
c. multi-tasking.
d. thread extension.
11.
Slowing down the processor’s clock speed when the workload is light is called:
a. clock withholding.
b. quieting.
c. throttling.
d. underclocking.
12.
Intel’s improvements to MMX instructions are the __________ instructions.
a. MMX2
b. 3Dnow!
c. GrafX
d. SSE
13.
If cache memory does not contain the necessary data, where does the data come from?
a. The selected input device
b. Main memory
c. The hard disk
d. The network adapter
14.
32-bit software is limited to a maximum of __________ of RAM.
a. 4 GB
b. 32 GB
c. 64 GB
d. 1024 GB
15.
Splitting a single processor into multiple virtual machines is called:
a. NX protection.
b. hardware-based virtualization.
c. software-based virtualization.
d. VM splitting.