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109. What is a “Kernel” in Cache Memory?
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108. What is a “Synchronization” in Cache Memory?
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107. How many main levels of Cache Memory?
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106. How many size of Cache L3 is true approximately? :
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105. How many size of Cache L2 is true approximately? :
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104. How many size of Cache L1 is true approximately? :
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103. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for
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102. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Length server” - :
Question 9
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101. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time system” - :
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time per task in the queue
Question 10
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100. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time queue” - :
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o Average time per task in the queue
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
Question 11
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99. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time server” - :
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time per task in the queue
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
Question 12
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98. If we talk about storage systems an interaction or transaction with a computer is divided for first what is an “Think time” - ?:
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o The time from the reception of the response until the user begins to enter the next command
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o The time for the user to enter the command
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o The time between when the user enters the command and the complete response is displayed
Question 13
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97. If we talk about storage systems an interaction or transaction with a computer is divided for first what is an “System response time” - ?:
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o The time between when the user enters the command and the complete response is displayed
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o The time for the user to enter the commando The time for the user to enter the command
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o The time from the reception of the response until the user begins to enter the next command
Question 14
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96. If we talk about storage systems an interaction or transaction with a computer is divided for first what is an “Entry time” - ? :
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o The time for the user to enter the command
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o The time between when the user enters the command and the complete response is displayed
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o The time from the reception of the response until the user begins to enter the next command
Question 15
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95. At storage systems Gray and Siewiorek classify faults what does mean “Environmental faults”? :
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o Fire, flood, earthquake, power failure, and sabotage
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o Faults in software (usually) and hardware design (occasionally)
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o Devices that fail, such as perhaps due to an alpha particle hitting a memory cell
Question 16
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94. At storage systems Gray and Siewiorek classify faults what does mean “Operation faults”? :
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o Mistakes by operations and maintenance personnel
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o Devices that fail, such as perhaps due to an alpha particle hitting a memory cell
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o Faults in software (usually) and hardware design (occasionally)
Question 17
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93. At storage systems Gray and Siewiorek classify faults what does mean “Design faults”? :
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o Faults in software (usually) and hardware design (occasionally)
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o Devices that fail, such as perhaps due to an alpha particle hitting a memory cell
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o Mistakes by operations and maintenance personnel
Question 18
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92. At storage systems Gray and Siewiorek classify faults what does mean “Hardware faults”? :
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o Faults in software (usually) and hardware design (occasionally)
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o Mistakes by operations and maintenance personnel
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o Devices that fail, such as perhaps due to an alpha particle hitting a memory cell
Question 19
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91. What is a RAID 4?
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o Many applications are dominated by small accesses
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o Since the higher-level disk interfaces understand the health of a disk, it’s easy to figure out which disk failed
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o Also called mirroring or shadowing, there are two copies of every piece of data
Question 20
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90. What is a RAID 3?
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o Since the higher-level disk interfaces understand the health of a disk, it’s easy to figure out which disk failed
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o Many applications are dominated by small accesses
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o Also called mirroring or shadowing, there are two copies of every piece of data
Question 21
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89. What is a RAID 2?
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o This organization was inspired by applying memory-style error correcting codes to disks
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o It has no redundancy and is sometimes nicknamed JBOD, for “just a bunch of disks,” although the data may be striped across the disks in the array
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o Also called mirroring or shadowing, there are two copies of every piece of data
Question 22
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88. What is a RAID 1?
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o Also called mirroring or shadowing, there are two copies of every piece of data
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o It has no redundancy and is sometimes nicknamed JBOD, for “just a bunch of disks,” although the data may be striped across the disks in the array
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o This organization was inspired by applying memory-style error correcting codes to disks
Question 23
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87. What is a RAID 0?
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o It has no redundancy and is sometimes nicknamed JBOD, for “just a bunch of disks,” although the data may be striped across the disks in the array
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o Also called mirroring or shadowing, there are two copies of every piece of data
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o This organization was inspired by applying memory-style error correcting codes to disks
Question 24
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86. A virus classification by target includes the following categories, What is a File infector?
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o Infects files that the operating system or shell consider to be executable
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o A typical approach is as follows
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o The key is stored with the virus
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o Far more sophisticated techniques are possible
Question 25
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85. In Non-Blocking Caches what does mean “Early restart”?
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o Fetch the words in normal order, but as soon as the requested word of the block arrives, send it to the processor and let the processor continue execution
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o Request the missed word first from memory and send it to the processor as soon as it arrives; let the processor continue execution while filling the rest of the words in the block
Question 26
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84. In Non-Blocking Caches what does mean “Critical Word First”?
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o Fetch the words in normal order, but as soon as the requested word of the block arrives, send it to the processor and let the processor continue execution
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o Request the missed word first from memory and send it to the processor as soon as it arrives; let the processor continue execution while filling the rest of the words in the block
Question 27
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83. Storage Systems, “Higher associativity to reduce miss rate” -
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o Obviously, increasing associativity reduces conflict misses
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o The obvious way to reduce capacity misses is to increase cache capacity
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o The simplest way to reduce the miss rate is to take advantage of spatial locality and increase the block size
Question 28
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82. Storage Systems, “Bigger caches to reduce miss rate” -
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o The obvious way to reduce capacity misses is to increase cache capacity
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o Obviously, increasing associativity reduces conflict misses
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o The simplest way to reduce the miss rate is to take advantage of spatial locality and increase the block size
Question 29
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81. Storage Systems, “Larger block size to reduce miss rate” -
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o The simplest way to reduce the miss rate is to take advantage of spatial locality and increase the block size
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o The obvious way to reduce capacity misses is to increase cache capacity
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o Obviously, increasing associativity reduces conflict misses
Question 30
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80. At Critical Word First for Miss Penalty chose correct sequence of Blocking Cache with Critical Word first “Order of fill”:
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o 3,4,5,6,7,0,1,2
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o 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Question 31
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79. At Critical Word First for Miss Penalty chose correct sequence of Basic Blocking Cache “Order of fill”:
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o 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
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o 3,4,5,6,7,0,1,2
Question 32
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78. What does MAF?
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o Miss Address File
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o Map Address File
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o Memory Address File
Question 33
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77. What does mean MSHR?
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o Miss Status Handling Register
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o Map Status Handling Reload
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o Mips Status Hardware Register
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o Memory Status Handling Register
Question 34
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76. Non-Blocking Cache Timeline for “Miss Under Miss” the sequence is -?
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Miss->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->Miss Penalty->CPU time
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Hit->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->CPU time
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o CPU time-Cache Miss-Miss Penalty-CPU time
Question 35
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75. Non-Blocking Cache Timeline for “Hit Under Miss” the sequence is -?
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Hit->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->CPU time
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Miss->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->CPU time
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o CPU time-Cache Miss-Miss Penalty-CPU time
Question 36
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74. Non-Blocking Cache Timeline for “Blocking Cache” the sequence is - ?
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o CPU time-Cache Miss-Miss Penalty-CPU time
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Hit->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->CPU time
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o CPU time->Cache Miss->Miss->Stall on use->Miss Penalty->CPU time
Question 37
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73. In Multilevel Caches “Misses per instruction” equals =
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o misses in cache / number of instructions
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o misses in cache / accesses to cache
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o misses in cache / CPU memory accesses
Question 38
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72. In Multilevel Caches “Global miss rate” equals =
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o misses in cache / CPU memory accesses
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o misses in cache / accesses to cache
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o misses in cache / number of instructions
Question 39
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71. In Multilevel Caches “Local miss rate” equals =
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o misses in cache / accesses to cache
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o misses in cache / number of instructions
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o misses in cache / CPU memory accesses
Question 40
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70. What is a Conflict?
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o misses that occur because of collisions due to less than full associativity
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o first-reference to a block, occur even with infinite cache
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o cache is too small to hold all data needed by program, occur even under perfect replacement policy
Question 41
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67. At VLIW Multi-Way Branches, which of this solution is true about problem: Long instructions provide few opportunities for branches:
Question 42
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66. What is an ALAT? :
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o Advanced Load Address Table
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o Allocated Link Address Table
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o Allowing List Address Table
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o Addition Long Accessibility Table
Question 43
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65. h Speculative Execution, which of this solution is true about problem: Possible memory hazards limit code scheduling:
Question 44
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64. At VLIW Speculative Execution, which of this solution is true about problem: Branches restrict compiler code motion?
Question 45
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63. At VLIW by “performance and loop iteration” which time is shorter?
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o Software Pipelined
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o Loop Unrolled
Question 46
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62. At VLIW by “performance and loop iteration” which time is longer?
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o Loop Unrolled
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o Software Pipelined
Question 47
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61. What is “VLIW”?
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o Very Long Instruction Word
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o Very Light Internal Word
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o Very Less Interpreter Word
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o Very Low Invalid Word
Question 48
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60. Out-of-Order Control Complexity MIPS R10000 which element is not in Control Logic?
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o Integer Datapath
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o CLK
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o Free List
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o Address Queue
Question 49
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59. Out-of-Order Control Complexity MIPS R10000 which element is in Control Logic?
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o Register name
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o Instruction cache
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o Data tags
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o Data cache
Question 50
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58. At VLIW “Superscalar Control Logic Scaling” which parameters are used?
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o Width and Lifetime
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o Width and Height
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o Time and Cycle
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o Length and Addition
Question 51
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57. What is an IQ?
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o Issue Queue
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o Internal Queue
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o Interrupt Queue
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o Instruction Queue
Question 52
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56. What is a FL?
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o Free List
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o Free Last
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o Free Launch
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o Free Leg
Question 53
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55. What is a RT?
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o Rename Table
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o Recall Table
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o Relocate Table
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o Remove Table
Question 54
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54. Speculating on Exceptions “Recovery mechanism” is -
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o Only write architectural state at commit point, so can throw away partially executed instructions after exception
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o Exceptions are rare, so simply predicting no exceptions is very accurate
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o An entity capable of accessing objects
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o None of them
Question 55
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1. Speculating on Exceptions “Check prediction mechanism” is -
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o Exceptions detected at end of instruction execution pipeline, special hardware for various exception types
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o Exceptions are rare, so simply predicting no exceptions is very accurate
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o The way in which an object is accessed by a subject
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o None of them
Question 56
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52. Speculating on Exceptions “Prediction mechanism” is -
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o Exceptions are rare, so simply predicting no exceptions is very accurate
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o Exceptions detected at end of instruction execution pipeline, special hardware for various exception types
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o Only write architectural state at commit point, so can throw away partially executed instructions after exception
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o None of them
Question 57
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51. What is about Superscalar means “F-D-X-M-W”?
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o Fetch, Decode, Execute, Memory, Writeback
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o Fetch, Decode, Instruct, Map, Write
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o Fetch, Decode, Excite, Memory, Write
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o Fetch, Decode, Except, Map, Writeback
Question 58
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50. How many stages used in Superscalar (Pipeline)?
Question 59
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49. What is a SB?
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o Scoreboard
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o Scorebased
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o Scalebit
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o Scaleboard
Question 60
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48. What is a PRF?
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o Physical Register File
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o Pending Register File
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o Pipeline Register File
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o Pure Register File
Question 61
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47. What is a FSB?
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o Finished Store Buffer
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o Finished Stack Buffer
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o Finished Stall Buffer
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o Finished Star Buffer
Question 62
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46. What is a ROB?
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o Reorder Buffer
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o Read Only Buffer
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o Reload Buffer
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o Recall Buffer
Question 63
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45. What is a ARF:
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o Architectural Register File
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o Architecture Relocation File
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o Architecture Reload File
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o Architectural Read File
Question 64
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44. Which of the following formula is true about Issue Queue for “Instruction Ready”:
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o Instruction Ready = (!Vsrc0 || !Psrc0)&&(!Vsrc1 || !Psrc1)&& no structural hazards
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o Instruction Ready = (!Vsrc0 || !Psrc1)&&(!Vsrc1 || !Psrc0)&& no structural hazards
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o Instruction Ready = (!Vsrc1 || !Psrc1)&&(!Vsrc0 || !Psrc1)&& no structural hazards
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o Instruction Ready = (!Vsrc1 || !Psrc1)&&(!Vsrc0 || !Psrc0)&& no structural hazards
Question 65
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43. How many instructions used in Distributed Superscalar 2 and Exceptions?
Question 66
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42. How many issue queue used in Distributed Superscalar 2 and Exceptions:
Question 67
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41. How many issue queue used in Centralized Superscalar 2 and Exceptions?
Question 68
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40. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Length queue” -:
Question 69
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39. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Length server” - :
Question 70
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38. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time system” - :
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time per task in the queue
Question 71
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37. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time queue” - :
Answer
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o Average time per task in the queue
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
Question 72
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36. Little’s Law and a series of definitions lead to several useful equations for “Time server” - :
Answer
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o Average time to service a task; average service rate is 1/Time server traditionally represented by the symbol µ in many queuing texts
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o Average time per task in the queue
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o Average time/task in the system, or the response time, which is the sum of Time queue and Time server
Question 73
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35. If we talk about storage systems an interaction or transaction with a computer is divided for first what is an “Think time” - ?:
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o The time from the reception of the response until the user begins to enter the next command
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o The time for the user to enter the command
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o The time between when the user enters the command and the complete response is displayed
Question 74
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34. If we talk about storage systems an interaction or transaction with a computer is divided for first what is an “System response time” - ?:
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o The time between when the user enters the command and the complete response is displayed
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o The time for the user to enter the command
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o The time from the reception of the response until the user begins to enter the next command
Question 75
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33. What is kernel process?
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o Provide at least two modes, indicating whether the running process is a user process or an operating system process
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o Provide at least five modes, indicating whether the running process is a user process or an operating system process
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o Provide a portion of the processor state that a user process can use but not write
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o None of them
Question 76
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32. What does DDR stands for?
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o Double data rate
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o Dual data rate
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o Double data reaction
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o None of them
Question 77
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31. What does DRAM stands for?
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o Dynamic Random Access memory
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o Dual Random Access memory
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o Dataram Random Access memory
Question 78
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30. What does SRAM stands for?
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o Static Random Access memory
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o System Random Access memory
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o Short Random Accessmemory
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o None of them
Question 79
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29. What is the cycle time?
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o The minimum time between requests to memory.
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o Time between when a read is requested and when the desired word arrives
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o The maximum time between requests to memory.
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o None of them
Question 80
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28. What is the access time?
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o Time between when a read is requested and when the desired word arrives
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o The minimum time between requests to memory.
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o Describes the technology inside the memory chips and those innovative, internal organizations
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o None of them
Question 81
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27. Data Hazard:
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o An instruction depends on a data value produced by an earlier instruction
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o An instruction in the pipeline needs a resource being used by another instruction in the pipeline
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o Whether or not an instruction should be executed depends on a control decision made by an earlier instruction
Question 82
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26. Structural Hazard:
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o An instruction in the pipeline needs a resource being used by another instruction in the pipeline
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o An instruction depends on a data value produced by an earlier instruction
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o Whether or not an instruction should be executed depends on a control decision made by an earlier instruction
Question 83
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25. Exploit spatial locality:
Question 84
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24. Exploit temporal locality:
Question 85
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23. Reduce Miss Rate: High Associativity. Empirical Rule of Thumb:
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o Direct-mapped cache of size N has about the same miss rate as a two-way set- associative cache of size N/2
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o If cache size is doubled, miss rate usually drops by about √2
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o None of them
Question 86
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22. Reduce Miss Rate: Large Cache Size. Empirical Rule of Thumb:
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o If cache size is doubled, miss rate usually drops by about √2
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o Direct-mapped cache of size N has about the same miss rate as a two-way set- associative cache of size N/2
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o None of them
Question 87
Answer
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o Write Through – write both cache and memory, generally higher traffic but simpler to design
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o write cache only, memory is written when evicted, dirty bit per block avoids unnecessary write backs, more complicated
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o No Write Allocate – only write to main memory
Question 88
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20. Least Recently Used (LRU):
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o cache state must be updated on every access
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o Used in highly associative caches
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o FIFO with exception for most recently used block(s)
Question 89
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19. What is Computer Architecture?
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o is the design of the abstraction/implementation layers that allow us to execute information processing applications efficiently using manufacturing technologies
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o is a group of computer systems and other computing hardware devices that are linked together through communication channels to facilitate communication and resource-sharing among a wide range of users
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o the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them
Question 90
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18. What is a Bandwidth-Delay Product:
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o is amount of data that can be in flight at the same time (Little’s Law)
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o is time for a single access – Main memory latency is usually >> than processor cycle time
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o is the number of accesses per unit time – If m instructions are loads/stores, 1 + m memory accesses per instruction, CPI = 1 requires at least 1 + m memory accesses per cycle
Question 91
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17. What is a Bandwidth:
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o a is the number of accesses per unit time – If m instructions are loads/stores, 1 + m memory accesses per instruction, CPI = 1 requires at least 1 + m memory accesses per cycle
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o is time for a single access – Main memory latency is usually >> than processor cycle time
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o is amount of data that can be in flight at the same time (Little’s Law)
Question 92
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16. Control Hazard:
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o Whether or not an instruction should be executed depends on a control decision made by an earlier instruction
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o An instruction depends on a data value produced by an earlier instruction
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o An instruction in the pipeline needs a resource being used by another instruction in the pipeline
Question 93
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15. Data Hazard:
Answer
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o An instruction depends on a data value produced by an earlier instruction
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o An instruction in the pipeline needs a resource being used by another instruction in the pipeline
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o Whether or not an instruction should be executed depends on a control decision made by an earlier instruction
Question 94
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1. Structural Hazard:
Answer
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o An instruction in the pipeline needs a resource being used by another instruction in the pipeline
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o An instruction depends on a data value produced by an earlier instruction
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o Whether or not an instruction should be executed depends on a control decision made by an earlier instruction
Question 95
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13. The formula of “Iron Law” of Processor Performance:
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o time/program = instruction/program * cycles/instruction * time/cycle
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o time/program = instruction/program * cycles/instruction + time/cycle
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o time/program = instruction/program + cycles/instruction * time/cycle
Question 96
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12. Algorithm for Cache MISS:
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Compare request address to cache tags and see if there is a match -> Read block of data from main memory -> Replace victim block in cache with new block -> return copy of data from cache
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Read block of data from main memory -> return copy of data from cache
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Replace victim block in cache with new block -> return copy of data from cache
Question 97
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11. Algorithm for Cache HIT:
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Replace victim block in cache with new block -> return copy of data from cache
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Read block of data from main memory -> return copy of data from cache
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o Processor issues load request to cache -> Compare request address to cache tags and see if there is a match -> return copy of data from cache
Question 98
Answer
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o cache is too small to hold all data needed by program, occur even under perfect replacement policy (loop over 5 cache lines)
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o misses that occur because of collisions due to less than full associativity (loop over 3 cache lines)
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o first-reference to a block, occur even with infinite cache
Question 99
Answer
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o cache is too small to hold all data needed by program, occur even under perfect replacement policy (loop over 5 cache lines)
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o first-reference to a block, occur even with infinite cache
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o misses that occur because of collisions due to less than full associativity (loop over 3 cache lines)
Question 100
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7. Average Memory Access Time is equal:
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o Hit Time * ( Miss Rate + Miss Penalty )
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o Hit Time - ( Miss Rate + Miss Penalty )
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o Hit Time / ( Miss Rate - Miss Penalty )
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o Hit Time + ( Miss Rate * Miss Penalty )
Question 101
Answer
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o No Write Allocate, Write Allocate
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o Write Through, Write Back
Question 102
Answer
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o No Write Allocate, Write Allocate
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o Write Through, Write Back
Question 103
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4. What occurs at Data access when we speak about Common And Predictable Memory Reference Patterns?
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o subroutine call
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o n loop iterations
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o vector access
Question 104
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3. What occurs at Stack access when we speak about Common And Predictable Memory Reference Patterns?
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o subroutine call
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o n loop iterations
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o vector access
Question 105
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2. What occurs at Intruction fetches when we speak about Common And Predictable Memory Reference Patterns?
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o n loop iterations
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o subroutine call
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o vector access
Question 106
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1. - What is a Latency:
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o is time for a single access – Main memory latency is usually >> than processor cycle time
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o is the number of accesses per unit time – If m instructions are loads/stores, 1 + m memory accesses per instruction, CPI = 1 requires at least 1 + m memory accesses per cycle
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o is amount of data that can be in flight at the same time (Little’s Law)