Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Hardware (Section 13 - No. 26)

In computer architecture, what is the purpose of an operand?

To specify the operation to be performed.

To provide the data or the address of the data to be used by an instruction.

To store the results of the operation.

To control the sequence of instructions.

The operand provides the data or the address of the data that the instruction will operate on.