Questão 1
Questão
Operations performed by a processor, such as fetching an instruction, decoding the instruction, performing an arithmetic operation, and so on, are governed by:
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a system clock
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a system processor
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a clock processor
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a processor
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a clock
Questão 2
Questão
Typically all operations performed by a processor begin with the:
Questão 3
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The time between pulses called?
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clock speed
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clock rate
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cycle time
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clock cycle
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cycle rate
Questão 4
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Typically, clock signals are generated by a ______, which generates a constant signal wave while power is applied.
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quartz crystal
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calcium crystal
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zinc crystal
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mercury crystal
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radium crystal
Questão 5
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A processor is driven by a clock with a constant frequency f or, equivalently, a constant cycle time t, where t = 1/f:
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Instruction execution rate
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Instruction execution cycle
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Instruction execution time
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Instruction execution period
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None of the above
Questão 6
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Average cycles per instruction of a program called:
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CPU
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Clock cycle time
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CPI
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Clock rate
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CPE
Questão 7
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__ is a collection of programs, defined in a high-level language, that together attempt to provide a representative test of a computer in a particular application or system programming area.
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A benchmark suite
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A performance suite
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A IDE suite
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A MIPS suite
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None of the above
Questão 8
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Measures such as MIPS and MFLOPS have proven adequate to evaluating the performance of processors
Questão 9
Questão
SPEC Benchmarks, which evaluates the performance of World Wide Web (WWW) servers:
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SPECjvm98
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SPECjbb2000
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SPECweb99
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SPECmail2001
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all of the above
Questão 10
Questão
SPEC Benchmarks, which intended to evaluate performance of the combined hardware and software aspects of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) client platform:
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SPECjvm98
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SPECjbb2000
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SPECweb99
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SPECmail2001
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all of the above
Questão 11
Questão
SPEC Benchmarks, which for evaluating server-side Java-based electronic commerce applications:
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SPECjvm98
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SPECjbb2000
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SPECweb99
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SPECmail2001
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all of the above
Questão 12
Questão
SPEC Benchmarks, which designed to measure a system’s performance acting as a mail server
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SPECjvm98
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SPECjbb2000
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SPECweb99
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SPECmail2001
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all of the above
Questão 13
Questão
ENIAC stands for:
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
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Electronic Nuclear Integrator and Computer
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Encapsulation Numerical Integrator and Commerce
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Encapsulation Numerical Integrator and Computer
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Electronic Numerical Integer and Computer
Questão 14
Questão
The general structure of the IAS computer:
Questão 15
Questão
Contains a word to be stored in memory or sent to the I/O unit, or is used to receive a word from memory or from the I/O unit
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Memory buffer register (MBR)
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Memory address register (MAR)
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Instruction register (IR)
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Instruction buffer register (IBR)
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Program counter (PC)
Questão 16
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Specifies the address in memory of the word to be written from or read into the MBR
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Memory buffer register (MBR)
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Memory address register (MAR)
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Instruction register (IR)
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Instruction buffer register (IBR)
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Program counter (PC)
Questão 17
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Contains the 8-bit opcode instruction being executed.
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Memory buffer register (MBR)
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Memory address register (MAR)
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Instruction register (IR)
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Instruction buffer register (IBR)
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Program counter (PC)
Questão 18
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Employed to hold temporarily the right-hand instruction from a word in memory
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Memory buffer register (MBR)
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Memory address register (MAR)
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Instruction register (IR)
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Instruction buffer register (IBR)
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Program counter (PC)
Questão 19
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Contains the address of the next instruction pair to be fetched from memory.
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Memory buffer register (MBR)
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Memory address register (MAR)
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Instruction register (IR)
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Instruction buffer register (IBR)
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Program counter (PC)
Questão 20
Questão
Transistor is a solid-state device, made from silicon
Questão 21
Questão
The use of the _______ defines the second generation of computers.
Questão 22
Questão
The use of the _______ defines the first generation of computers.
Questão 23
Questão
The use of the ________ defines the third generation of computers.
Questão 24
Questão
The use of the _________ defines the fourth generation of computers.
Questão 25
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The use of the _________ defines the fifth generation of computers.
Questão 26
Questão
Moore’s law: “The cost of a chip has remained virtually unchanged during this period of rapid growth in density. This means that the cost of computer logic and memory circuitry has increasing at a dramatic
Questão 27
Questão
Moore’s law: “Because logic and memory elements are placed closer together on more densely packed chips, the electrical path length is shortened, decreasing operating speed”
Questão 28
Questão
Moore’s law: “The computer becomes smaller, making it more convenient to place in a variety of environments”
Questão 29
Questão
Moore’s law: “There is a reduction in power and cooling requirements”
Questão 30
Questão
Moore’s law: “The interconnections on the integrated circuit are much more reliable than solder connections. With less circuitry on each chip, there are fewer interchip connections”
Questão 31
Questão
When Intel was developed its 4004, it is the first chip to contain all of the components of a CPU on a single chip, later known as Microprocessor
Questão 32
Questão
Processor can simultaneously work on multiple instructions. How this technique called?
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Branch prediction
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Pipelining
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Data flow analysis
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Speculative execution
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None of the above
Questão 33
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The processor looks ahead in the instruction code fetched from memory and predicts which branches, or groups of instructions, are likely to be processed next
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Branch prediction
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Pipelining
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Data flow analysis
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Speculative execution
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None of the above
Questão 34
Questão
The processor analyzes which instructions are dependent on each other’s results, or data, to create an optimized schedule of instructions
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Branch prediction
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Pipelining
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Data flow analysis
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Speculative execution
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None of the above
Questão 35
Questão
This enables the processor to keep its execution engines as busy as possible by executing instructions that are likely to be needed
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Branch prediction
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Pipelining
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Data flow analysis
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None of the above
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Speculative execution
Questão 36
Questão
The “natural” unit of organization of memory
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Word
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Addressable units
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Unit of transfer
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Sequential access
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Direct access
Questão 37
Questão
For main memory, this is the number of bits read out of or written into memory at a time
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Word
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Addressable units
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Unit of transfer
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Sequential access
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Direct access
Questão 38
Questão
Memory is organized into units of data, called records; access must be made in a specific linear sequence
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Word
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Addressable units
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Unit of transfer
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Sequential access
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Direct access
Questão 39
Questão
For random-access memory, this is the time it takes to perform a read or write operation
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Access time
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Memory cycle time
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Transfer rate
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Performance
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All of the above
Questão 40
Questão
The L2 cache is slower and typically larger than the L1 cache, and the L3 cache is slower and typically larger than the L2 cache
Questão 41
Questão
The L2 cache is faster and typically larger than the L1 cache, and the L3 cache is slower and typically larger than the L2 cache
Questão 42
Questão
Additional hardware is used to ensure that all updates to main memory via cache are reflected in all caches
Questão 43
Questão
Each cache controller monitors the address lines to detect write operations to memory by other bus masters
Questão 44
Questão
Only a portion of main memory is shared by more than one processor, and this is designated as:
Questão 45
Questão
Larger blocks increase the number of blocks that fit into a cache; because each block fetch overwrites older cache contents, a small number of blocks results in data being overwritten shortly after they are fetched
Questão 46
Questão
A state in which data requested for processing by a component or application is found in the cache memory
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cache hit
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cache miss
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cache overwrites
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cache set
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cache access time
Questão 47
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The basic element of a semiconductor memory is:
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memory cell
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cache memory
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RAM
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DRAM
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None of the above
Questão 48
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Random Access Integral Disk
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Redundant Access Integral Disk
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Random Array Independent Disk
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Redundant Array Independent Disk
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Redundant Access Independent Disk
Questão 49
Questão
Data are recorded on and later retrieved from the disk via a conducting coil named the tail