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1. This is resetting your computer so that the microprocessor runs
faster than the manufacturer-specified speed.
a. thrashing
b. debouncing
c. stepping
d. overclocking
e. load
balancing
2. This was the first processor to be shipped with a 1 gigahertz (one
billion hertz) clock speed.
a. Athlon
b. BeOS
c. Crusoe
d. HIPPI
e. Pentium
3. This is the continuous and somewhat overlapped movement of
instructions to the processor.
a. flow
control
b. cyclic
redundancy checking
c. inverse
multiplexing
d. pathing
e. pipelining
4. This is the data path and physical interface between the processor
and the L1 and L2 memory.
a. backlink
b. backside
bus
c. CardBus
d. footprint
e. virtual
memory
5. This is a group of microchips designed to work as a unit to perform
one or more related functions.
a. biochip
b. networking
chip
c. chipset
d. diode
e. solid-state
6. This is computer object code that is processed by a program rather
than by the hardware processor.
a. critical
section routine
b. virtual
memory
c. Unicode
d. bytecode
e. initial
program load
7. This is a special program that processes statements written in a
particular programming language and turns them into machine language or
"code" that a computer's processor uses.
a. compiler
b. loader
c. instruction
d. problem
program
e. logic
gate
8. This is the logic circuitry that responds to and processes the basic
instructions that drive a computer.
a. oscillator
b. daughterboard
c. transponder
d. transducer
e. processor
9. This is one of a small set of data holding places that is part of a
computer's microprocessor.
a. register
b. spool
c. buffer
d. capacitor
e. queue
10. This is random access memory (RAM) that a computer microprocessor
can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM.
a. shared
memory
b. cache
memory
c. stale
data
d. burst
SRAM
e. RAMDAC
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This was first published in July 2003