CS2810 Quizes

How many drives does RAID-3 use for parity information?

1

To what power of 10 prefix does "giga" refer?

1 Billion

To what power of 10 prefix does "micro" refer?

1 Millionth

What formula can you use to calculate the speedup of a system?

Amdahl's Law

Given a logic gate for OR, which of the following rows would contain a '1' in the output or 'Q' column. (The highlighted letter refers to the choices below) X Y Q A 0 0 ? B 0 1 ? C 1 0 ? D 1 1 ?

B,C,D

When the CPU switches between processes, it is called a ______________.

Context Switch

What circuit does the following diagram represent? circuit

Decoder

ASCII utilizes syndrome's to detect errors.

False

Each bit in the computer typically has its own address.

False

Moore's Law states that "The density of transistors in an integrated circuit will double every four years."

False

Parity is able to compensate for multiple bit errors in the same data block

False

Programmed I/O uses IRQ lines to notify the CPU of data.

False

Raid Level 0 provides for excellent data redundancy.

False

Synchronous busses must use a handshaking protocol.

False

The Von Neumann architecture allows multiple paths from main memory to the control unit of the CPU.

False

What circuit does the following diagram represent? Q3.png

Flip-Flop

What circuit does the following diagram represent? Q2.png

Full-Adder

What does the following diagram represent? circuit

Half-Adder

What is an ISA?

Instruction Set Architecture

An ______________ language processes one source statement at a time when producing a binary stream.

Interpreted

RISC has ______________ instructions than a CISC architecture.

Less

The purpose of the Control Unit is to:

Monitor and direct the flow of instructions and data

Which digit determines whether the signed integer number is positive or negative.

Most Significant Digit

What basic logic gate does the following truth table represent? A B Q 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1

OR

Which RAID level gives the best failure protection?

RAID 1

Which Error Detection and Correction Scheme is able to compensate for Burst Errors?

Reed Solomon

In the memory hierarchy, which of the following is fastest. L1 cache, L2 Cache, USB Drive, Registers

Registers

The time it takes for sectors to come underneath the read/write heads is called:

Rotational Delay

Which of the Following is not one of the possible combinations resulting from Flynn's Taxonomy? MIMD, SMPP, SISD, MISD, SIMD

SMPP

Which is faster SRAM or DRAM?

SRAM

Which of the following is not part of the Central Processing Unit?

System Bus

Amdahl's Law allows you to calculate the speed up of what?

The overall system.

Anything that can be done with software can also be done with hardware.

True

Compile-time binding requires code to be loaded into the same location each time it is executed.

True

Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's) allow us to share code between several programs without having to include a full copy of external module's code.

True

Hamming Codes are able to detect and correct errors.

True

The maximum number we can store in an UNSIGNED integer is 65535.

True

A ___________ allows us to emulate multiple physical computers through the use of a single computer.

Virtual Machine

What basic logic gate does the following truth table represent? A B Q 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0

XOR

If an architecture is byte addressable, and the instruction set architecture word size is larger than 1 byte we must address the issue of byte ________.

alignment

Embedded systems differ from general-purpose machines in that they:

carry out a limited set of tasks.

In associative memory, such as cache, information is accessed by its _________.

content

For caching to be effective, we are dependent upon the idea of

locality