Practice - Memory Usage and Data Requirement
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Practice Questions
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What does the Program Counter (PC) hold?
💡 Hint: Think about what the PC is tracking.
What is the function of the Memory Address Register (MAR)?
💡 Hint: Consider what you need before interacting with memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a Program Counter (PC) do?
💡 Hint: Consider what keeps track of instruction sequence.
True or False: The Memory Buffer Register (MBR) holds the address from which instructions are fetched.
💡 Hint: Think about what data's role is during fetching.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a scenario in which the PC is set to 100, describe the sequence of operations that will happen in the fetch cycle.
💡 Hint: Think about how the address you start from guides the operation sequences.
Analyze how multiple simultaneous accesses to the MBR could lead to data inconsistency.
💡 Hint: Consider the effects of two processes trying to use the same resource at once.
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