What are the fundamental cycles of a CPU and how does a processor handle signals?

Here are the answers to the multiple-choice questions:

6. It looks for an instruction, uses circuits to interpret it, and then carries out the instruction in a process known as the: This process is the fundamental cycle of a CPU, often referred to as the fetch-decode-execute cycle, or the machine instruction cycle. The correct answer is B.

7. When the processor receives a signal, it stops what it is doing in order to attend to the request. The mechanism exploited here is: This describes the process where a CPU temporarily suspends its current task to respond to an event or request, which is managed by interrupt handling. The correct answer is C.