Computer systems and the von Neumann model

Question 1 of 10

Describe the roles of the MAR, MDR, PC and CIR during the fetch stage.

Question 2 of 10

The start-up hardware check is called the Power-On Self-___.

Question 3 of 10

Firmware is stored on non-volatile memory.

Question 4 of 10

The bus that carries memory addresses from the CPU is the ___ bus.

Question 5 of 10

The von Neumann bottleneck refers to

Question 6 of 10

The width of the data bus affects

Question 7 of 10

POST stands for

Question 8 of 10

A 32-bit address bus can address at most

Question 9 of 10

The architecture where instructions and data share one memory is named after John von ___.

Question 10 of 10

In the von Neumann architecture, instructions and data are