Thematic evaluation on topic "Architecture of PC and related terminlogy" Variant 1

to e-mail letters

to measure clock-speed of the processor

to create any kind of text information

to run a programme

wireless connection

Web network

keyboard

MS Office documents

users’ files and folders;

the entire set of programmes and procedures to operate any computer system;

any users' applications and programmes

disks, which store a large amount of information

internal parts of the PC

different kinds of equipment

external input/output devices

CPU frequency

on-chip memory and some interfaces for communicating with the external world

a circuit that responds the basic instructions to drive a particular computer

a register array

a circuit designed to govern a specific operation in an embedded system;

Bill Gates

Harold Abelson

Yoshua Bengio

Marcian Hoff

low energy consumption

low production costs

fast instructions fetch

the capability of simultaneous performance for over one thousand operations per each second

motherboard sockets

RAM

cashe size

binary code

the operating frequency of a processor

small amount of high-speed random access memory

a memory unit which is capable of fetching, decoding and executing its own instructions

the number of instructions BIOS can process in a given space of time

several cores

random access memory (RAM)

power source to retain data

temporary dynamic data

measuring CPU clock speed

controlling data flow to and from hard disks and other devices

acting as an interface between the operating system and the hardware

providing access to the data which RAM contains