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C952 Computer
Architecture Extended
Exam Questions and
Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Denning [Date] [Course title]

,Moore's Law - Answer: states that integrated circuit resources double every 18-24 months



Pipelining - Answer: Moves multiple operations through hardware units that each do a piece of an
operation.

A means of introducing parallelism into the essentially sequential nature of a machine-instruction
program.



Systems software - Answer: provides services that are commonly useful, including operating systems,
compilers, loaders, and assemblers.



Operating System (OS) - Answer: Supervising program that manages the resources of a computer for the
benefit of the programs that run on that computer.



The five classic components of a computer - Answer: Input, output, memory, datapath, and control, with
the last two sometimes combined and called the processor.



liquid crystal display (LCD) - Answer: technology using a thin layer of liquid polymers that can be used to
transmit or block light according to whether a charge is applied



Active matrix display - Answer: display using a transistor to control the transmission of light at each
individual pixel.



Pixel - Answer: The smallest individual picture element. Screens are composed of hundreds of thousands
to millions of these, organized in a matrix



Cache memory - Answer: small, fast memory that acts as a buffer for the DRAM memory



Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) - Answer: Cache is built using this memory technology



Implementation - Answer: Hardware that obeys the architecture abstraction

, LAN - Answer: A network designed to carry data within a geographically confined area, typically within a
single building



WAN - Answer: A network extended over hundreds of kilometers that can span a continent



Transistor - Answer: An on/off switch controlled by an electric signal.



VLSI - Answer: A circuit containing hundreds of thousands to millions of transistors



Throughput - Answer: Another measure of performance, it is the number of tasks completed per unit
time



Bandwidth - Answer: Another term for throughput



Raid 0 - Answer: no redundancy, striping



Raid 1 - Answer: mirroring, redundancy



Raid 2 - Answer: error detecting and correcting code, not used



Raid 3 - Answer: bit interleaved parity



Raid 4 - Answer: block interleaved parity



Raid 5 - Answer: distributed block-interleaved parit



Raid 6 - Answer: P&Q redundancy



Instruction set - Answer: The vocabulary of commands understood by a given architecture.

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