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Control Unit Address Line: (Two Words)

The document is a quiz about computer architecture concepts. It contains questions about various components of a computer system like the control unit, address lines, data lines, ALU, and registers. It also asks about instruction sets, instruction level parallelism, multicore processors, clocks, assemblers, error correcting codes, and character encoding schemes. There are also true/false questions testing knowledge of instruction cycle, interrupts, symmetric multiprocessors, ARM and MIPS architecture features.

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Control Unit Address Line: (Two Words)

The document is a quiz about computer architecture concepts. It contains questions about various components of a computer system like the control unit, address lines, data lines, ALU, and registers. It also asks about instruction sets, instruction level parallelism, multicore processors, clocks, assemblers, error correcting codes, and character encoding schemes. There are also true/false questions testing knowledge of instruction cycle, interrupts, symmetric multiprocessors, ARM and MIPS architecture features.

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COA QUIZ 2

1. CPU part which monitors the execution of all instructions and the transfer of all information.
It extracts instructions from memory, decodes these instructions,
making sure data is in the right place at the right time (two words) – Control Unit

2. Bus type which determine the location of the source or destination of the data. – Address Line

3. Bus type which convey bits from one device to another, it determines the direction of data
flow, and when each device can access the bus. – Data lines

4. CPU part which carries out logical and arithmetic operations as directed by the control unit.
- ALU

5. Are used in computer systems as places to store a wide variety of data, such as addresses,
program counters, or data necessary for program execution. – Register

6. The control unit uses a _________________ to find the next instruction for execution and a
status register to keep track of overflows, carries, borrows, and the like. – Program Counter

7. These machines have a large number of instructions, of variable length, with complex layouts.
Many of these instructions are quite complicated, performing multiple operations when a
single instruction is executed. – Complex instruction set computer (CISC)

8. A collection of pre-defined machine codes, which the CPU is designed to expect and be able to
act upon when detected. – Instruction Set

9. A register which holds an instruction immediately preceding its execution. - Instruction


Register

10. The process of increasing the clock speeds and voltage of your CPU to improve performance.
It is a great way to get a little extra kick out of an aging machine, or unlock a little more power
out of a budget computer. – Overclock

11. A superscalar processor exploits what is known ___________, which refers to the degree to
which the instructions of a program can be executed in parallel. - Instruction level parallelism

12. It combines two or more processors on a single computer chip – Multicore


13. Every computer contains at least one clock that synchronizes the activities of its components.
– Clocks
14. ISA translate instructions that are comprehensible to humans into the machine language that
is comprehensible to computers. – Assemblers

15. ISA translate instructions that are comprehensible to humans into the machine language that
is comprehensible to computers. – Assemblers
COA QUIZ 2

16. Are particularly useful in correcting burst errors that occur when a series of adjacent bits are
damaged. – Reed Soloman code

17. The simplest data recording and transmission code. It encodes 1 as “high” and 0 as “low.” –
NRZ code

18. Coding mechanism which has a binary one with an “up” transition and a binary zero with a
“down” – Manchester Coding

19. This code associates an integer value for each symbol in the character set, such as letters,
digits, punctuation marks, special characters, and control characters. The dominant character
code outside the IBM mainframe world - EBCDIC

True or False

20. The MARIE ISA consists of only thirty instructions. - False

21. The fetch-decode-execute cycle is the series of steps that a computer carries out when it runs
a program. – True

22. Interrupts can be triggered by I/O requests, arithmetic errors (such as division by zero), or
when an invalid instruction is encountered. – True

23. A symmetric multiprocessor do not share the same main memory and I/O facilities and are
interconnected by a bus or other internal connection scheme, such that memory access time
is approximately the same for each processor – False

24. ARM uses a stack model of data processing, in which operations only perform on operands in
registers and not directly in memory. – False

25. MIPS has watchdog features which issues warning alerts in the event of software failures. -
False

26. ARM was one of the first RISC microprocessors – False

27. In CISC, instruction pipelining can be implemented easily. – False

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