KYT-CAR Processor 2

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KYT-CAR Processor 2 Quiz

Test your knowledge on processor architecture and computer memory with the KYT-CAR Processor 2 Quiz! This quiz consists of 37 questions covering a variety of topics in computer science and engineering.

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Questions on CPU design and functionality
Insights into memory types and usage
Understanding of performance metrics and improvements

37 Questions9 MinutesCreated by CodingGuru512

What type of architecture is composed of an ALU, a control unit and a memory?

Turing machine

Gothic

Vom Neumann

Finite state machine

According to Flynn's taxonomy, in which classification is a multi-core processor?

SISD

MIMD

SIMD

MISD

Compared to the main memory, cache memory is:

Bigger and faster

Faster and smaller

Smaller and slower

Bigger and slower

The algebra domain using only binary values was introduced by:

George boole

Charles Babbage

Edsger Dijkstra

Alan Turing

What instruction use different parts of modern CPU

LOAD/ADD

LOAD/STORE

ADD/SUB

ADD/AND

What type of RAM is generally used for the main memory?

ROM

DRAM

SRAM

EPROM

What type of RAM is generally used for the cache memory?

ROM

DRAM

SRAM

EPROM

What is an advantage of DRAM over SRAM?

It’s cheaper

It’s faster

Better bandwidth

Lower latency

What is an advantage of RISC over CISC?

Optimizes the number of instructions per program

Widely available for personal computers

Has a larger range of instructions

Faster instructions

In which type of notation are floating point values represented in binary?

Two’s complements

Classic notation

HTML

Scientific notation

According to Amdahl’s law, how much faster a program can go if we improve 50% of it?

2 times

0.25

0.5

4 times

Where is the cache memory generally integrated?

Into the CPU

In the BUS

Into the RAM memory

In the BIOS

What are the basic steps to perform an instruction?

Perform and print

Add, transfert and save

Loop, execute, and jump

Fetch, decode and execute

What design allows a CPU to start ab instructions before the end of the previous?

Caches

TLB

Pipelining

ALU

How does a CPU achieve high performance parallelism?

By having a hight frequency than CPUs

By using cache memory

By having a lot of simple cores performing the same operation at the same time

By having an extended set of instructions

Which law states that the density of transistors doubles every 18 months?

Amdahl’s law

Murphy’s law

Bell’s law

Moore’s law

What does the program counter register contain?

The address of the next instruction

The number of programs

The number of cycles

The return address

Dependencies between instructions can create something in a pipeline, what is it?

Holes

Bubbies

Segmentation faults

Core dump

How does a program take advantage of the cache memory?

By doing memory

By reusing data

By unrolling loops

By spacing data in the memory

What do we use translate code from a high-level programming language to assembly?

An IDE

A Hex editor

A compiler

A parser

Circuit used to store one bit can be built with:

3 XOR gates

2 NOR gates

1 AND gate

2 AND gates

On out of order processors, instructions are scheduled:

Statically

First in, first out

Dynamically

Round robin

What is assembly language?

A list of bits

A hight level programming language

A symbolic representation of machine instructions

An object oriented programming language

In perfect condition, hardware pipelining achieves?

1 instructions every 2 cycles

1 instructions per cycles

2 instructions per cycles

Over 9000 instructions per cycle

In a Von Neumann architecture, what is contained in the memory?

Instructions

DATA and instructions

Cache

DATA

How many transistor are required to build an AND gate?

(0,0) = 0, (0,1) = 1, (1,0) = 1, (1,1) = 0 is the truth table of:

NOT

XOR

If the first bit of a floating point value in binary is 1, the value is:

Lower than 255

Greater than 255

Negative

Positive

ARM processors use what type of architectures?

ARM

RISC

GPU

CISC

How does a branch predictor improve the results?

By using pipeline

By using cache memory

By transferring more data

By performing the same operation more frequently

What are theoretical elements of a Turing machine:

LOAD, STORE, PUSH, PULL

A memory, a control unit and an arithmetic unit

An infinite tape, a reading/writing tape, a table of instruction

A list of states, with for each state an entry action and an exit action

The 3 parts that compose a float in binary are the sign, the exponent and:

The mantissa

The sum

The opcode

The comma

Intel processors use what type of architectures?

ARM

RISC

GPU

CISC

DRAM strores the information in:

Capacitors

Wires

Resistors

Transistors

What method is used to represent signed integers in binary on modern computers?

One's complement

Flip Bits

Divide and conquer

Two's complement

What are the basics operations in boolean logic?

0 and 1

AND, OR, NOT

ADD, SUB, MUL

LOAD, STORE

At what point does a branch predictor predict branches?

Tea time

Link Time

Compile time

Runtime

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