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Which one of the following best describes the Von Neumann bottleneck?
Which one of the following best describes the Von Neumann bottleneck?
- The address of the instruction in the program being executed
- The high-speed cache used to store data temporarily
- The issue where the processor is idle while waiting for instructions to be accessed from memory (correct)
- The form of cache known as registers
What is the purpose of registers in a computer system?
What is the purpose of registers in a computer system?
- To fetch the next instruction from memory
- To increment the program counter
- To write the result to memory
- To store data/instructions temporarily (correct)
What is the standard operation in the fetch-execute cycle?
What is the standard operation in the fetch-execute cycle?
- Increment the program counter
- Fetch the next instruction from memory (correct)
- Decode the instruction
- Read operands
Which one of the following best describes the program counter?
Which one of the following best describes the program counter?
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What can be used to mitigate the Von Neumann bottleneck?
What can be used to mitigate the Von Neumann bottleneck?
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Which one of the following best describes the role of the program counter in a computer system?
Which one of the following best describes the role of the program counter in a computer system?
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Which one of the following best describes the Von Neumann bottleneck?
Which one of the following best describes the Von Neumann bottleneck?
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What can be used to mitigate the Von Neumann bottleneck?
What can be used to mitigate the Von Neumann bottleneck?
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What is the purpose of registers in a computer system?
What is the purpose of registers in a computer system?
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What is the standard operation in the fetch-execute cycle?
What is the standard operation in the fetch-execute cycle?
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