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C952 ComputerArchitecture 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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