MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Clock speed is measured in cycles per second. 3GHz means
A
3000 cycles (instructions) per second
B
3 million cycles (instructions) per second
C
3 cycles cycles (instructions) per second
D
3 billion cycles (instructions) per second
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The clock speed measures the number of cycles your CPU executes per second, measured in GHz (gigahertz). A “cycle” is technically a pulse synchronized by an internal oscillator, but for our purposes, they’re a basic unit that helps understand a CPU’s speed.

Detailed explanation-2: -speed of around 3GHz which means the CPU can carry out three thousand million instructions per second!

Detailed explanation-3: -A CPU with a clock speed of 3.2 GHz executes 3.2 billion cycles per second. (Older CPUs had speeds measured in megahertz, or millions of cycles per second.) Sometimes, multiple instructions are completed in a single clock cycle; in other cases, one instruction might be handled over multiple clock cycles.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 2002, an Intel Pentium 4 model was introduced as the first CPU with a clock rate of 3 GHz (three billion cycles per second corresponding to   0.33 nanoseconds per cycle).

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