Processing - Practice

These practice questions are similar to the questions on the IPSO posttest. If you get a wrong answer while practicing, keep trying until you get it right.

1. To what part of the human anatomy is the CPU compared?

Heart
Eyes and ears
Brain
Central nervous system

2. Which unit keeps track of important addresses such as the next instruction to be executed?

Control unit
Arithmetic unit
Logic unit
Registers

3. Which of the following represent assembly language?

100101
SUB
010DIV
C++

4. The program is passed on to which part of the computer, where each instruction is given a unique address?

ROM
RAM
ALU
Control unit

5. What is the purpose of a program counter?

Executes instruction
Fetches instructions from the main memory
Keeps track of successive instructions
Temporary memory location