Lecture Practice Quiz                              

 1.  second         2.  millisecond    3.  microsecond    4.  nanosecond    
 5.  hertz          6.  kilohertz      7.  megahertz      8.  gigahertz   
 9.  byte          10.  kilobyte      11.  megabyte      12.  gigabyte     
13   terabyte      14.  meter         15.  millimeter    16.  micron        
17.  nanometer
 
____  1.  Light will travel approximately 186,000one miles in 1 ____.

____  2.  Reading a sector from a disk takes approximately 10 ____.

____  3.  One millionth of a second.

____  4.  Light will travel less than one foot  in 1 ____.

____  4.  It would take a modern Intel processor less than a ____ to fetch something
          from a processor register.

____  4.  It would take a modern Intel processor a couple of ____ to fetch something
          from cache memory.

____  4.  It would take a modern Intel processor about 50 ____ to fetch something
          from main (RAM) memory.

____  5.  One cycle per second.

____  6.  KYW 1060 on your AM dial is 1060 ____.

____  7.  Easy listening WBEB 101.1 FM in Philadelphia is 101.1 ____.

____  8.  One billion cycles per second.

____  8.  Clock speed for a modern PC is approximately 2 ____.

____  9.  A small mouthfull of bits.

____ 10.  A 16 bit address allows you to directly address 64 ____ of memory.

____ 10.  The Sandy Bridge implementation of the Intel 32 bit architecture has a
          total of 64 ____ of L1 cache per core (1/2 for instructions, 1/2 for data).

____ 11.  The 20 bit address on the Intel 8088 allowed systems to have up to 1 ____ of 
          memory.

____ 11.  The Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Intel processors have a total of 3 to 8 ____
          of L3 cache, shared between all of the cores.

____ 12.  A typical desktop PC might have 4 ____ of memory.

____ 12.  One billion bytes.

____ 13.  Capacity of the disk on a modern desktop PC is approximately 1 ____.

____ 16.  One millionth of a meter.

____ 16.  Feature (e.g. transistor) size on the early Intel Sandy Bridge processor
          is .032 ____.

____ 16.  The diameter of a typical human hair is approximately 100 ____.

____ 17.  Feature (e.g. transistor) size on the early Intel Sandy Bridge processor
          is 32 ____.

____ 17.  Feature (e.g. transistor) size on the current Intel Ivy Bridge processor 
          is 22 ____.