Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering

Q1:

A hardware device that is capable of executing a sequence of instructions, is known as

A CPU

B ALU

C CU

D Processor

E None of the above

ANS:D - Processor

Consider Processor as an Engine of a vehicle, when it coupled with steering (Control Unit), Fuel Tank(Memory) and a person driving it (ALU) it becomes ---> CPU.

Thus, A Processor is PART of the CPU that does computational tasks.

A CPU can have more than one Processor, a computing system can have more than One CPU.