ENCMP100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Local Area Network, Central Processing Unit, Computer Architecture

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Engineering, Computer
• Course: ENCMP100
• Professor: Qing Zhao

Document Summary

The subsystem that stores binary-encoded programs and binary- encoded date; note: all information stored in memory must be expressed with 0"s and 1"s. This is the electronic brain that retrieves binary (base 2) This is the electronic brain that retrieves binary (base 2) instruction and data from the memory and then executes the instructions to produce binary data results. Often a computer can be connected through a network interface and a local area network (lan) to the world-wide internet (the network cloud) Components in a computer system are usually connected using a bus. A bus is a series of wired used to connect the different parts of a computer. Used to store programs and data the processor is currently working with. Is volatile (loses the data it is holding if power is turned off) Much slower to access data from than primary storage. Can store much more data than primary storage.