Computer Fundamentals - Engineering

Q1:

Locations in the main memory of a computer are called

A Alphabets

B Words

C Data

D Characters

E None of the above

ANS:B - Words

Answer is: Words.

A word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized piece of data handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture.