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__________ are caused by limited SFUs, double-precision multiplication, and
branching.
A. Structural hazards
B. RAW data hazards
C. Vertical hazards
D. Latency hazards
_______ applications embrace threading in a fundamental way.
A. Multi-instance
B. Multi-process
C. Java
D. Threaded
The _________ command causes the I/O module to take an item of data from the data
bus and subsequently transmit that data item to the peripheral.
A. control
B. test
C. read
D. write
A _______ is an electronic circuit that produces an output signal that is a simple
Boolean operation on its input signals.
A. gate
B. decoder
C. counter
D. flip-flop
Which of the following is a true statement?
A. a procedure can be called from more than one location
B. a procedure call can appear in a procedure
C. each procedure call is matched by a return in the called program
D. all of the above
The __________ byte consists of three fields: the Scale field, the Index field and the
Base field.
A. SIB
B. VAX
C. PDP-11
D. ModR/M
Decimal "10" is _________ in hexadecimal.
A. 1
B. A
C. 0
D. FF
The ________ exists in one of two states and, in the absence of input, remains in that
state.
A. assert
B. complex PLD
C. decoder
D. flip-flop
__________ is the simplest mapping technique and maps each block of main memory
into only one possible cache line.
A. Direct mapping
B. Associative mapping
C. Set associative mapping
D. None of the above
The _________ cycle occurs at the beginning of each instruction cycle and causes an
instruction to be fetched from memory.
A. execute
B. indirect
C. fetch
D. interrupt
For internal memory, the __________ is equal to the number of electrical lines into and
out of the memory module.
A. access time
B. unit of transfer
C. capacity
D. memory ratio
Which properties do all semiconductor memory cells share?
A. they exhibit two stable states which can be used to represent binary 1 and 0
B. they are capable of being written into to set the state
C. they are capable of being read to sense the state
D. all of the above
A __________ is an instance of a program running on a computer.
A. process
B. process switch
C. thread
D. thread switch
The terms __________ relate to the relative width of microinstructions.
A. packed/unpacked
B. hard/soft
C. horizontal/vertical
D. direct/indirect
________ instructions are those that change the format or operate on the format of data.
A bus that connects major computer components (processor, memory, I/O) is called a
__________.
A. system bus
B. address bus
C. data bus
D. control bus
The ________ command is used to activate a peripheral and tell it what to do.
A. control
B. test
C. read
D. write
A __________ system is a set of interrelated subsystems.
A. secondary
B. hierarchical
C. complex
D. functional
For more than four variables an alternative approach is a tabular technique referred to
as the _________ method.
A. DeMorgan
B. Quine-McCluskey
C. Karnaugh map
D. Boole-Shannon
The OS maintains a __________ for each process that shows the frame location for
each page of the process.
A. kernel
B. page table
C. TLB
D. logical address
The _________ system uses only the numbers 0 and 1.
A. positional
B. binary
C. hexadecimal
D. decimal
_________ instructions are used to position quantities in registers temporarily for
computational operations.
A. Load-and-store
B. Window
C. Complex
D. Branch
___________ is a GPU processing technology.
A. Fermi
B. Kepler
C. Maxwell
D. All of the above
The TL supports which of the following address spaces?
A. memory
B. I/O
C. message
D. all of the above
The QPI _________ layer is used to determine the course that a packet will traverse
across the available system interconnects.
A. link
B. protocol
C. routing
D. physical
The _________ is connected to the address lines of the system bus.
A. MBR
B. MAR
C. PC
D. IR
Which of the following is an essential characteristic of cloud computing?
A. rapid elasticity
B. measured service
C. broad network access
D. all of the above
The __________ is designed specifically to be optimized for fast three-dimensional
(3D) graphics rendering and video processing.
A. CPU
B. GPU
C. CU
D. ALU
A __________ is the high-level set of rules for exchanging packets of data between
devices.
A. bus
B. protocol
C. packet
D. QPI
Negative numbers greater than 2-127 are called _________.
A. negative overflow
B. negative underflow
C. positive overflow
D. positive underflow
The areas between pits are called _________.
A. lands
B. sectors
C. cylinders
D. strips
A _________ suite is a collection of programs, defined in a high-level language, that
together attempt to provide a representative test of a computer in a particular
application or system programming area.
Although considered obsolete, the term _________ is sometimes used instead of
significand.
A. minuend
B. mantissa
C. base
D. subtrahend
_________ causes results issuing from one functional unit to be fed immediately into
another functional unit and so on.
A. Chaining
B. Rollover
C. Passive standby
D. Pipelining
Blocks of memory, recently used global variables, memory addressing, and one operand
addressed and accessed per cycle are characteristics of _________ organizations.
The ________ is a single-chip, general-purpose I/O module designed for use with the
Intel 80386 processor.
_________ metric are required for all reported results and have strict guidelines for
compilation.
The prefix __________ refers to the fact that each step is very simple and accomplishes
very little.
The use of subnormal numbers is referred to as _________ underflow.
A SoC product architect can create product families or a specific product within a
family by placing a single slice or multiple slices on a SoC chip.
A _________ is a single instance of the kernel function.
Data are recorded on and later retrieved from the disk via a conducting coil named the
_________.
If two numbers are added, and they are both positive or both negative, then _________
occurs if and only if the result has the opposite sign.
Individual variables, compiler assigned global variables, register addressing, and
multiple operands addressed and accessed in one cycle are characteristics of
__________ organizations.
When data are moved over longer distances, to or from a remote device, the process is
known as data transport.
In any number, the rightmost digit is referred to as the most significant digit.
The difference between the operations provided in high-level languages (HLLs) and
those provided in computer architecture is known as the ________.
__________ or fetch overlap is where, while the second stage is executing the
instruction, the first stage takes advantage of any unused memory cycles to fetch and
buffer the next instruction.
The decimal system has a radix of 100.
An asynchronous counter is also referred to as a ________ because the change that
occurs to increment the counter starts at one end and "ripples" through to the other end.
