COP4600 Exam 1 Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions | 100% pass

What pieces of hardware are in the CPU? - Registers, ALU, and control unit Hardware which serves as the CPUs memory. There are special and general purposed of these - Registers Hardware which does arithmetic and logical computations - ALU Hardware which tracks state/status. Also controls other components - Control unit Instruction cycle responsible for loading the instruction - Fetch Instruction cycle responsible for finding the opcode/operands of the instruction and interpreting it - Decode Instruction cycle responsible for carrying out the instruction - Execute Protected instructions can only be executed in a ____________ - Protected state Legacy boot process - BIOS What does BIOS stand for? - Binary Input Output System The ________ bootstraps the boot sector - Bootloader What does bootstrap mean? - Loading up the computer