Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Hardware (Section 29 - No. 31)
What is the purpose of an instruction's 'operand'?
To specify the operation to be performed.
To indicate the memory address of the next instruction.
To provide the data or the memory location to be used by the operation.
To control the flow of the program.
Explication
The operand provides either data or the location of the data that an instruction will use.