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7 points Which hardware component predicts what data will be needed and makes that data a vailable to the CPU s internal memory? Answer Selected Answer: c. cache controller Correct Answer: c. cache controller Question 2 0 out of 6.7 points If you are designing a CPU on which you want to have a lot of storage that can b e accessed at the internal clock speed of the CPU, which type of memory are you concerned with? Answer Selected Answer: a. L2 cache Correct Answer: d. L1 cache Question 3 6.7 out of 6.7 points If your address bus is 20-bits wide, approximately how much memory can your comp uter address? Answer Selected Answer: c. 1024K bytes Correct Answer: c. 1024K bytes Question 4 6.7 out of 6.7 points Which of the following is best described as a technology that enables a single p rocessor to appear as two processors to the OS and allows multiple threads to ru n simultaneously? Answer Selected Answer: c. hyper-threading Correct Answer: c. hyper-threading Question 5 6.7 out of 6.7 points You have heard that the Linux distribution your are going to install to run a ne w application runs best on a RISC architecture. Which of the following CPU fami lies should you consider for the computer on which you will install this Linux d istribution? Answer Selected Answer: a. SPARC Correct Answer: a. SPARC Question 6 6.7 out of 6.7 points What RISC processor design can build multiple instructions into a single word an d can combine instructions into groups, allowing parallel operation? Answer

Selected Answer: EPIC Correct Answer: c. EPIC Question 7 6.7 out of 6.7 points

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You are building a new PC for yourself. You want your computer to have a dual-c ore processor made by AMD. Which processor family should you choose? Answer Selected Answer: c. Athlon X2 Correct Answer: c. Athlon X2 Question 8 6.7 out of 6.7 points Which feature of RISC CPUs allows the processor to operate on one instruction at the same time it is fetching one or more subsequent instructions? Answer Selected Answer: c. pipelining Correct Answer: c. pipelining Question 9 6.7 out of 6.7 points If you want to design a CPU that will run on general-purpose hardware, which typ e of CPU should you design? Answer Selected Answer: c. CISC Correct Answer: c. CISC Question 10 6.7 out of 6.7 points Which of the following is true about RISC CPU hardware? Answer Selected Answer: b. it is less complicated and can run at faster clock speeds Correct Answer: b. it is less complicated and can run at faster clock speeds Question 11 6.7 out of 6.7 points You work for a college that was just donated a computer with an Itanium processo r. Which of the following OSs can NOT be installed on this computer? Answer Selected Answer: a. Vista 64-bit Correct Answer: a. Vista 64-bit Question 12 6.7 out of 6.7 points A CPU that has two or more sections that read and execute instructions is referr ed to as which of the following? Answer Selected Answer: b.

multicore processor Correct Answer: b. multicore processor Question 13 6.7 out of 6.7 points You have found an old dusty computer in your basement that you can identify as a n original IBM PC. You ask your friend if he knows what CPU was used in these c omputers. Which of the following represents a correct response to your question ? Answer Selected Answer: a. 8088 Correct Answer: a. 8088 Question 14 6.7 out of 6.7 points You are troubleshooting a computer that is in the design phase. The problem you see is that the CPU is not receiving information about the status and of resour ces and devices connected to the computer. The CPU is also not receiving IRQs. What component of the computer do you suspect could be the problem? Answer Selected Answer: c. control bus Correct Answer: c. control bus Question 15 6.7 out of 6.7 points Approximately how much data could a CPU with an external clock speed of 2 GHz an d a 32-bit data bus transfer per second? Answer Selected Answer: c. 8 Gigabytes Correct Answer: c. 8 Gigabytes