Edexcel curriculum (2015)

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Algorithms

Application sof'wre​

Ascii

Binary

Cache

Client-Server

Cloud

Compression

Computational think

CPU

Cyber security

Database

Fetch-d-e cycle

Embedded system

Encryption

Environment

Ethics

File size

Flow chart

Hexadecimal

High Level language

ISP/Internet

Law & Legislation

Logic

Magnetic HDD

Networking

Open source

Operating system

Optical storage

Peer to peer

Pictures (data rep)

Protocols

Run length encoding

RAM

ROM

Simulation software

Solid state HD

Sound

Stored program

Utility Sof'wre

Stored program concept

Answer

​Any two of:
A program must be resident in memory in order to be executed. (1)
Machine code instructions are fetched from memory one at a time, decoded and executed in the processor. (1)
The idea of storing programs and data in the same memory unit / of treating programs as just one form of data. (1)
Enables a single control unit to manage program control / the fetch-decode execute sequence. (1)

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Stored program concept

Answer

instructions are stored in main memory;
instructions are fetched, (decoded) and executed by the processor;
programs can be moved in and out of main memory;