cda3100 final exam prep Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update, Graded A+
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CDA
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CDA
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that anticipates the capability of new
technology and when it can be used is____________________________.
o :## Moore's Law
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that hides lower-level details so that they can
be hidden to provide simpler models is called _____...
cda3100 final exam prep Questions
and Correct Answers Latest Update,
Graded A+
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that anticipates the capability of new
technology and when it can be used is____________________________.
o :## Moore's Law
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that hides lower-level details so that they can
be hidden to provide simpler models is called _____________________.
o :## Abstraction
Great Architecture Ideas: The most efficient method to obtain improvements is to
_______________________________.
o :## make the common case fast
Great Architecture Ideas: Improving performance by doing multiple operations at
the same time is called ______________________________.
o :## parallelism
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that is commonly used to improve instruction
throughput is __________________________________.
o :## pipelining
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Great Architecture Ideas: Sometimes it's faster to assume a particular result then
waiting until the result is known. Also known as speculation and is used to guess
results of branches this idea is known as _______________________.
o :## prediction
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that allows most of the accesses to be caught
at the rest level and be able to retain most of the information at the last level is
called ______________________________________.
o :## hierarchy of memories
Great Architecture Ideas: The idea that allows architecture to detect and correct
errors is called _______________________.
o :## redundancy
Computer "A" takes 10 seconds to execute a program. Computer "B" takes 15
seconds to execute the same program. How many times faster is Computer "A" then
computer "B"?
o :## 1.5
The duration of a Clock Cycle is called______________________.
o :## clock period
The cycles per second is called_____________________.
o :## clock frequency
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You are given a processor that has a clock period of 4 Picoseconds. What is its'
Frequency in Gigahertz?
o :## 250 GHz
What is the largest unsigned (positive) number you can represent with 5 bits:
o :## 31
Convert the decimal (base 10 ) number 134 into an 8 bit binary number.
o :## 1000 0110
Convert the decimal (base 10 ) number 21 into an 8 bit binary number.
o :## 0001 0101
Convert the decimal (base 10 ) number 100 into an 8 bit binary number.
o :## 0110 0100
Convert the decimal (base 10 ) number 255 into an 8 bit binary number.
o :## 1111 1111
Convert the binary (base 2) unsigned number 10010110 into decimal (base 10).
o :## 150
Convert the number 10.125 to a binary number. Use only the number of bits
necessary and remember to place the decimal properly.
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