Advanced Computer Architecture MCQs with Answers
Practice important Advanced Computer Architecture MCQs with answers and explanations.
Multiple Choice Questions
Q81: How does pre-fetching improve performance in RISC architectures?
- A: By reducing memory access
- B: By speculating instructions
- C: By issuing instructions before the previous completes
- D: By reducing instruction size
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C
Q82: What is the basic measure of performance of a machine?
- A: Execution time
- B: MIPS
- C: MFLOPS
- D: SPEC
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A
Q83: Which performance measure was popular in the late 70s and early 80s?
- A: SPEC
- B: Whetstones
- C: MIPS
- D: Dhrystones
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C
Q84: MIPS stands for Millions of _______ per Second.
- A: Floating point instructions
- B: Integer instructions
- C: Instructions
- D: Functions
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C
Q85: What does MFLOPS measure?
- A: Integer instruction performance
- B: Floating-point instruction execution
- C: Memory allocation
- D: Disk I/O
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B
Q86: Which benchmark was developed using statistics collected during compiler development?
- A: SPEC
- B: Whetstones
- C: Dhrystones
- D: MFLOPS
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B
Q87: Which benchmark focuses on measuring integer instruction performance?
- A: SPEC
- B: Whetstones
- C: Dhrystones
- D: MFLOPS
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C
Q88: One disadvantage of Whetstones and Dhrystones is that they fit in _____.
- A: Cache
- B: Main memory
- C: Disk
- D: Register
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A
Q89: SPEC is an association that defines standard benchmarks for fair evaluation of _______.
- A: Memory
- B: Processors
- C: Compilers
- D: Operating systems
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B
Q90: What is the size of general-purpose registers in the SRC?
- A: 16-bits
- B: 32-bits
- C: 64-bits
- D: 8-bits
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B