WGU C952 Exam test preparation Questions and Must have marking scheme Updated version 2024/2025
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WGU C952 Computer Architecture
WGU C952 Exam test preparation Questions and Must have marking scheme Updated version 2024/2025
Immediate addressing mode - correct answer the operand is a constant within the instruction itself
Register addressing mode - correct answer the operand is a register
Base or displacement addres...
WGU C952 Exam test preparation Questions and Must
have marking scheme Updated version 2024/2025
Immediate addressing mode - correct answer the operand is a constant within the
instruction itself
Register addressing mode - correct answer the operand is a register
Base or displacement addressing mode - correct answer operand is at the memory
location whose address is the sum of a register and a constant in the instruction
Pc-relative addressing mode - correct answer the branch address is [pc + constant in
instruction]
Primitives - correct answer used to solve data race issue
Linker (link editor) - correct answer a systems program that combines independently
assembled ml programs and resolves all undefined labels --> executable file
Combines the *pre-compiled* programs combines udef labels -> ex file
Executable file - correct answer if executed after the loader
Fxnl program in format of an object file that contains no unresolved references
May contain: symbol tables, debugging info ("stripped executable" does not have these)
Sequential doubleword addresses - correct answer 8 bytes apart, therefore a variable
index needs to be multiplied by 8 before adding the variable to the address
, Advance to the next address - correct answer to increment a pointer to an integer (add
8 to the pointer address)
Code generator - correct answer converts the optimized intermediate representation
into a processor's machine instructions
The last compiler phase
Type - correct answer in contrast to c, java calls the appropriate method (procedure)
based on the _______ of the calling object.
Upper bound - correct answer in contrast to c, java explicitly stores an extra item in
every array indicating the array's ____ ______.
32 - correct answer armv8 and mips have __-bit instructions
Mips - correct answer uses comparison instructions and branches based on the results
of the comparisons
Gpr (general purpose register) - correct answer type of register found in armv8
architecture
Can be used for addresses or data with virtually any instruction
Sse - correct answer streaming simd extesnsions
Introduces in 1999
Version 5 2007 = 170 instructions
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