Name Christine Roh

Activity Sheet
Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1) What are the two units within the CPU?

The two units within the CPU is the ALU and the CU.

2) What is the purpose of the ALU? Give examples of the types of

operations performed by the ALU.

The purpose of the ALU is to perform mathematical (addition, subtraction,

division, multiplication, modulo) as well as logical operations (evaluating
conditions).

3) What is the purpose of the control unit?

The purpose of the control unit is to handle instructions by dealing with

control signals, as it is the nerve centre of the computer. It is like a manager
that controls information flow in a computer.

4) Fill in the blank: One basic instruction is completed in one

Clock cycle .

5) Is a shorter clock cycle better or worse? Why?

A shorter clock cycle is better because the computer would take less time
to execute a basic instruction, resulting a faster operation time of a computer.

6) Fill in the blank Computers are measured in cycles per second or

hertz .

7) Mega is a prefix that means what?

Mega is a prefix that means “million”.

 8) Giga is a prefix that means what?

Giga is a prefix that means “billion”.

For the following questions:

Let P be the length of one clock cycle
Let R be the clock rate

9) What is the measure of a computer? (answer should be either P or R)

10) Write R in terms of P. (In other words, what is R = ?)

R = 1/P

11) If the processor in your computer is 2 GHz, what is P (the length of one
clock cycle)?

2 = 1/P
P = 1/2
P = 0.5 ns

12) If the processor in your computer has a clock cycle length of P = 0.8
nanoseconds (0.0000000008 seconds), what is the clock rate of your
computer? (in other words, how fast is your processor?)

R = 1/0.8
R = 1.25 Hertz