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The two terms are acronyms for "Control Unit" and "Arithmetic and Logic Unit". The ALU handles all arithmetic operations (for example, addition) and all logical operations (for example, c...

Network security focused on encryption are strong in raw computer security - the computers can encrypt data fast enough and the encryption is reliable and difficult to break. However, it has its downfalls - ...

Encapsulation is restricting data and actions to object they are defined in. In other words, no other object can access and modify them directly. In Java encapsulation can be achieved by making an object or ...

Data Validation Data validation is the process of comparing data with a set of rules to find out if data is reasonable. There are many types of data validation such as: -Format check: Checks data is in the r...

The cache memory aims to reduce the memory access time and thus increase your computer speed by storing frequently accessed data. A buffer, such as a printing buffer, is just a temporary memory storage that ...