Practice - Components of Central Processing Unit (CPU) and External Interface
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Practice Questions
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What component coordinates operations within the CPU?
💡 Hint: It manages the execution process.
What is the purpose of registers in the CPU?
💡 Hint: Think about where data is held while calculations happen.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the control unit do?
💡 Hint: Think about what manages operations in the CPU.
True or False: Registers are external memory.
💡 Hint: Consider where registers are actually located.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple CPU model outlining its main components and their functions, explaining how data flows between these components.
💡 Hint: Consider how each part interacts with the others.
Evaluate the advantages of using registers over main memory for computational tasks in a CPU.
💡 Hint: Think about speed and access times in computer architecture.
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