Computer Information Storage

What is the fundamental unit of a modern computer?

What is the total number of possible values that can be stored in a byte?

What is the natural size of the execution environment called?

How many bits are in a nibble?

What is the total number of bits in a byte?

What is the highest decimal value that can be stored in a byte?

What is the binary representation of 'on' in a bit?

What is the fundamental addressable unit of RAM?

How many bytes are in a word?

What is the purpose of the numbering systems in the context of computer information?

What is the size of a word on a 16-bit CPU?

On an Itanium 2 CPU, how many bits are in a general register?

How many bits of information does each hexadecimal digit hold?

What is the decimal value of the hexadecimal number 0x5C?

What is the purpose of the 0x prefix in hexadecimal notation?

In a memory model, how are actual physical memory locations organized?

What is the maximum address in a 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

What is the purpose of the permission system in certain architectures?

What is the term for an error that occurs when a program attempts to access the wrong segment?

What is the limitation of the maximum size of the memory that a CPU can access?