Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Software (Section 5 - No. 1)
What is the purpose of an interrupt in the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle?
To halt the cycle.
To allow the CPU to quickly switch to a more important task.
To speed up program execution.
To decode instructions.
Paliwanag
Interrupts allow the CPU to respond to important events by interrupting the current task and executing another one.