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1. What different types of data can be part of a machinelanguage instruction?

2. What are some differences between RISC and CISCcomputers?

3. What is the general architecture of most modern computers:VonNeumann, Harvard, or Modified Harvard?

4. What descriptors from 2 and 3 above would you use to classifytoday's personal computers?

5. Why is it important to know whether a machine is Big-Endianor Little Endian when converting 16-bit or 32-bit data from onetype of machine to another?

6. Is a programmer concerned with the types and number of busesinside a CPU?

7. How large of a memory can be supported by each of a 16-bit,32-bit, and 64-bit address bus ( both in K, M, G, and T and in the\"real\" number of addresses)?

8. Which addressing mode uses a register to specify the addressof an instruction operand in memory: Indexed, Register, PCrelative, or Immediate?

9. List 4 things that the processor's control unit does.

10. Why does a CPU need registers that are not accessible orprogrammable by a programmer?

11. List the steps that a CPU needs to go through in order toread a single data word from RAM.

12. What is the purpose of a bus inside of a CPU?

13. What type of special purpose computing device generally usesa Harvard architecture? Spell out the answer, an acronym is notenough