COP4600 Final Combined EXAM COMPLETE
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What pieces of hardware are in the Registers, ALU, and control unit
CPU?
Hardware which serves as the CPUs Registers
memory. There are special and
general purposed of these
Hardware which does arithmetic ALU
and logical computations
Hardware which tracks state/status. Control unit
Also controls other components
Instruction cycle responsible for Fetch
loading the instruction
Instruction cycle responsible for Decode
finding the opcode/operands of the
instruction and interpreting it
, Instruction cycle responsible for Execute
carrying out the instruction
Protected instructions can only be Protected state
executed in a ____________
Legacy boot process BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? Binary Input Output System
The ________ bootstraps the boot Bootloader
sector
What does bootstrap mean? Loading up the computer
Why are the bootsector and Bootsector is too small
bootloader separate?
Where is the BIOS init stored? The motherboard
What boot process is usable on BIOS
x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs?
What boot process has standard for Neither
ARM chipset systems?
Which boot process has UEFI
standardized NVRAM locations for
system variables?
Which boot process uses a BIOS
dedicated bootloader partition?
(2026) EXAM Questions and Answers (Verified
Answers) (Latest Update 2026) UPDATE!!
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Terms in this set (457)
What pieces of hardware are in the Registers, ALU, and control unit
CPU?
Hardware which serves as the CPUs Registers
memory. There are special and
general purposed of these
Hardware which does arithmetic ALU
and logical computations
Hardware which tracks state/status. Control unit
Also controls other components
Instruction cycle responsible for Fetch
loading the instruction
Instruction cycle responsible for Decode
finding the opcode/operands of the
instruction and interpreting it
, Instruction cycle responsible for Execute
carrying out the instruction
Protected instructions can only be Protected state
executed in a ____________
Legacy boot process BIOS
What does BIOS stand for? Binary Input Output System
The ________ bootstraps the boot Bootloader
sector
What does bootstrap mean? Loading up the computer
Why are the bootsector and Bootsector is too small
bootloader separate?
Where is the BIOS init stored? The motherboard
What boot process is usable on BIOS
x86-64 (i386) standalone PCs?
What boot process has standard for Neither
ARM chipset systems?
Which boot process has UEFI
standardized NVRAM locations for
system variables?
Which boot process uses a BIOS
dedicated bootloader partition?
