List and briefly define the four main elements of a computer.

Define the two main categories of processor registers.

In general terms, what are the four distinct actions that a machine instruction can
specify?

What is an interrupt?

How are multiple interrupts dealt with?

What characteristics distinguish the various elements of a memory hierarchy?

What is cache memory?

What is the difference between a multiprocessor and a multicore system?

What is the distinction between spatial locality and temporal locality?

In general, what are the strategies for exploiting spatial locality and temporal locality?

Explain briefly how interrupt-driven I/O works.

What are the trade-offs that determine the size of the cache memory.