Practice Computer Architecture and Design Questions and Answers

• Which operating system component manages and allocates system resources among various running processes?             ...
• Which of the following is an essential feature of a Doubly Linked List over a Singly Linked List?           
• Which big data technology is specifically designed for distributed data processing using a cluster of computers?
• Which of the following is a feature of abstraction?
• In OOP, what is meant by "overriding"?
• A processor has a 32-bit address bus and byte-addressable memory. Ignoring reserved regions, what maximum physical memory space is directly addressable?
• A direct-mapped cache has a size of 64 KB with a block size of 32 bytes, addressing a 32-bit main memory. How many bits are used for the tag field?
• A byte-addressable memory unit has a capacity of 1 MB (1,048,576 bytes). How many address lines are required to access every byte of this memory?
• A system has a cache access time of 10 ns and a main memory access time of 100 ns. If the cache hit ratio is 90%, what is the Average Memory Access Time (A...
• A CPU operates at a clock speed of 2 GHz, and on average, each instruction takes 4 clock cycles to execute (CPI = 4). What is the effective instruction exe...
• A computer system has a cache hit ratio of 90%, a cache access time of 10 ns, and a main memory access time of 100 ns (charged only on a cache miss). What ...
• Which type of computer architecture uses a small, simplified set of instructions to achieve higher execution speed?
• Which unit of computer memory is equal to 1024 Gigabytes?
• What does a ‘dual core’ processor mean?
• What is the decimal equivalent of octal number 17?
• VPN stands for:
• Which level of the memory hierarchy is located closest to the CPU and offers the smallest storage capacity but the fastest access time?
• What does the "clock speed" of a processor primarily measure?
• Which addressing mode specifies the operand's actual value directly within the instruction itself, rather than referring to a memory location?
• A CPU operates at a clock speed of 3.5 GHz, and each instruction takes an average of 2 clock cycles to execute (CPI = 2). What is the effective instruction...
• A computer system has a cache hit ratio of 95%, a cache access time of 5 ns, and a main memory access time of 80 ns (charged only on a cache miss). What is...