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Computer System Components and Registers

The document contains a series of questions related to computer architecture, specifically focusing on registers, the system bus, and processor components. It asks for definitions, roles of various components, and examples related to the fetch-execute cycle. The questions are structured to assess understanding of key concepts in computer systems.

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Computer System Components and Registers

The document contains a series of questions related to computer architecture, specifically focusing on registers, the system bus, and processor components. It asks for definitions, roles of various components, and examples related to the fetch-execute cycle. The questions are structured to assess understanding of key concepts in computer systems.

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Q1.

The memory buffer register and the program counter are examples of registers.

What is a register?
(Total 1 mark)

Q2.
The system bus connects together the processor, main memory and input/output
components.

The system bus itself is split into three separate buses: data, address and control.

(a) State what each of the following components does:

Processor

Main memory

Control bus
(3)

(b) The diagram shows how components of a computer system can be connected.

Write the correct name for each of the components A, B, C and D from the diagram
using only the following:

Processor, Address Bus, Control Bus, Data Bus, Hard Disk Drive,
Main Memory, Visual Display Unit, Keyboard
(4)
(Total 7 marks)

Q3.
The diagram below shows an incomplete diagram of the components of a processor.

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(a) Provide the full names for the components numbered 1 to 3 in the diagram above by
completing the table below.

Component Component Name


Number

(3)

(b) What is the role of the Control Unit?


(1)

(c) State the full name of the processor component that would perform subtraction and
comparison operations.
(1)

(d) What is meant by the term register?


(1)

(e) State one example of when the status register might have a bit set.
(1)
(Total 7 marks)

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Q4.
Registers are involved in the fetch part of the fetch-execute cycle.

Name three of these registers, describe what each will store, and give one further detail
about its role.
(Total 9 marks

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