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OCR GCSE Computer Science Exam Questions
1.1 Systems Architecture
1.1 question 26
The CPU has a clock speed of 3.8 GHz. Describe what this means.
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Mark scheme
Number of clock cycles per second; ~3.8 billion cycles/instructions per second (frequency of ticks).
Exam guidance
Do not award ‘how fast the computer is’. Must include a per‑second notion.
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