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Computer Architecture And Design

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 38 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Amdahl's Law






2. What is response time?






3. Moore's Law






4. What are the industry standard benchmarks to measure performance (e.g. - with different vendor chips)?






5. What is the $epc register used for?






6. What are the base units of GHz?






7. What are two examples of instruction - level parallelism?






8. What is price performance?






9. An example of an improvement that would impact throughput (but not response time).






10. How is CPU performance measured?






11. What are the five classic components of a computer?






12. What is soft real- time?






13. What is an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?






14. How can you encode an ISA?






15. What is the $pc register used for?






16. What is thread- level parallelism?






17. What does hardware refer to?






18. What is instruction - level parallelism?






19. What is non - volatile memory?






20. What are embedded computers?






21. An example of volatile memory






22. What is a supercomputer?






23. What does jal <proc> do?






24. What is secondary memory?






25. What is main/primary memory?






26. What are the classes of computing applications (five)?






27. An example of non - volatile memory






28. An example of an improvement that would impact response time (but not throughput).






29. What is included in the term organization?


30. What is volatile memory?






31. What is data- level parallelism?






32. What is throughput?






33. One reason why two's compliment is used as opposed to signed magnitude or one's compliment?






34. What is the $sp register used for?






35. What is a real- time performance requirement?






36. What are the hardware/software components affecting program performance?






37. An example of something typically associated with RISC architecture that is not typical in CISC architecture.






38. Stored Program Concept