CEA 201

CEA 201 - Unit 16(muti), Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Graded A+ D - -The superscalar approach can be used on __________ architecture. A. RISC B. CISC C. neither RISC nor CISC D. both RISC and CISC C - -The essence of the ________ approach is the ability to execute instructions independently and concurrently in different pipelines. A. scalar B. branch C. superscalar D. flow dependency D - -Which of the following is a fundamental limitation to parallelism with which the...

CEA 201 - Unit 15(muti) Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. VERIFIED. A - -The Patterson study examined the dynamic behavior of _________ programs, independent of the underlying architecture. A. HLL B. RISC C. CISC D. all of the above C - -_________ is the fastest available storage device. A. Main memory B. Cache C. Register storage D. HLL D - -The first commercial RISC product was _________. A. SPARC B. CISC C. VAX D. the Pyramid A - -_________ instructions are ...

CEA 201 - Unit 14(muti), Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, VERIFIED. C - -__________ are a set of storage locations. A. Processors B. PSWs C. Registers D. Control units A - -The ________ controls the movement of data and instructions into and out of the processor. A. control unit B. ALU C. shifter D. branch B - -________ registers may be used only to hold data and cannot be employed in the calculation of an operand address. A. General purpose B. Data C. Address D. Cond...

CEA 201 - Unit 13(muti) Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, VERIFIED. B - -The advantage of __________ is that no memory reference other than the instruction fetch is required to obtain the operand. A. direct addressing B. immediate addressing C. register addressing D. stack addressing D - -The principal advantage of ___________ addressing is that it is a very simple form of addressing. A. displacement B. register C. stack D. direct A - -__________ has the advantage of large...

CEA 201 - Unit 12(muti), Top Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, Rated A+ B - -The ________ specifies the operation to be performed. A. source operand reference B. opcode C. next instruction reference D. processor register B - -A(n) _________ expresses operations in a concise algebraic form using variables. A. opcode B. high-level language C. machine language D. register C - -There must be ________ instructions for moving data between memory and the registers. A. branch B....

CEA 201 - Unit 11(muti), Top exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. VERIFIED. C - -The operand ________ yields true if and only if both of its operands are true. A. XOR B. OR C. AND D. NOT D - -The operation _________ yields true if either or both of its operands are true. A. NOT B. AND C. NAND D. OR B - -The unary operation _________ inverts the value of its operand. A. OR B. NOT C. NAND D. XOR A - -A _______ is an electronic circuit that produces an output signa...

CEA 201 - Unit 8(muti) Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. VERIFIED. B - -The __________ is a program that controls the execution of application programs and acts as an interface between applications and the computer hardware. A. job control language B. operating system C. batch system D. nucleus A - -Facilities and services provided by the OS that assist the programmer in creating programs are in the form of _________ programs that are not actually part of the OS but are accessibl...

CEA 201 - Unit 7(muti), Questions and answers, Graded A+ B - -The _________ contains logic for performing a communication function between the peripheral and the bus. A. I/O channel B. I/O module C. I/O processor D. I/O command A - -The most common means of computer/user interaction is a __________. A. keyboard/monitor B. mouse/printer C. modem/printer D. monitor/printer C - -The I/O function includes a _________ requirement to coordinate the flow of traffic between internal r...

CEA 201 - Unit 6(muti), Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. VERIFIED. C - -Greater ability to withstand shock and damage, improvement in the uniformity of the magnet film surface to increase disk reliability, and a significant reduction in overall surface defects to help reduce read-write errors, are all benefits of ___________. a. magnetic read and write mechanisms b. platters c. the glass substrate d. a solid state drive B - -Adjacent tracks are separated by _________. a. s...

CEA 201 - Unit 5(muti), Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Verified. D - -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 - -One distinguishing characteristic of memory that is designated as _________ is that it is possible to both to read data from the me...