to Questions Short Answer 1. The processor is more commonly known by the abbreviation 2. A group of wires that connects components allowing them to communicate is known as a 3. The bus transmits signals that enable components to know where in memory instructions and data exist. 4. The up-tick of the system clock is when the voltage changes from 5. As memory gets physically closer to the CPU it can be accessed 6. byte ordering is when the hexadecimal number 1984 would appear sequentially in memory as 8419." 7. The is responsible for directing the flow of data in the CPU. 8. The speed of a CPU is determined by two factors: the and the cache is the slowest form of CPU cache. 10. The lower 8 bits of the RCX register is the register. 11. The register is the 32-bit stack pointer register. 12. The Instruction Execution Cycle's stage is when the CPU determines the operation denoted by the instruction/opcode. 13. A processor is able to perform multiple operations at the same time as long as each operation is in a different execution stage. 14. will take the processor away from its current sequence of operations in order to attend to another matter. 15. The I/O method with the least amount of CPU overhead is 9 True/False 1. The motherboard has connections for RAM, expansion cards, and external I/0 devices. 2. Moving a value into the edx register will overwrite the ds register. 3. A value of 1 in the SF bit of the rflags register indicates a positive value resulted from the previous operation. 4. PIO is the fastest of the I/O methods. 5. I/O channels require a minimum of two CPU cycles to complete an I/O operation