ICT - Exercise7 : Clock Speed Measurement

Clock Speed Measurement

NO	STATEMENT	TRUE	FALSE
1	A 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 performs better than a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3.
2	A 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 performs better than a 1.4 GHz Power PC G4 Processor.
3	1000 MHz equals to 1.0 GHz.
4	Microprocessor speeds are determined by their clock speed.
5	If 1 GHz = 1,000,000,000 cycles per second, a microprocessor that runs at 200 GHz executes 200 billion cycles per second.
6	The system clock is one of the major factors that influence the computer’s speed.

1. If 1 MHz = 1,000,000 cycles per second, a microprocessor that runs at 200 MHz executes

_______________ cycles per second.

2. Through Processing Speed, the 8, __________ and 32 bit designations are the CPU’s word size and can be thought of as the number of lanes on the highway.

3. The clock speed of computers is usually measured in __________.

4. One _______________ represents one billion cycles per second.

5. One hertz equal to ________________.

6. A 1.8 GHz processor has twice the clock speed of a _______ MHz processor.

A. 0.9

B. 900

C. 1900

D. 90,000

7. 1000 MHz is equivalent to __________.

A. 1.0 Hz

B. 0.1 Hz

C. 1.0 GHz

D. 0.1 GHz

8. Giga is a prefix that stands for _______.

A. billion

B. trillion

D. thousands

C. million

D. thousands

9. Below are the features of Megahertz.

I. 1000MHz = 0.1 GHz

II. One MHz represents one million cycles per second.

III. The speed of buses and interfaces are also measured in MHz.

IV. A one megahertz clock (1MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc.) are manipulated one million times per second.

A. I, II and III

B. I, III and IV

C. II, III and IV

D. All of the above