NPTEL Computer Architecture Week 11 Assignment Answers 2024
1. The performance of a processor is inversely proportional to ______.
- the time taken to execute a program.
- the clock frequency.
- the number of load-use hazards in a program.
- None of the options
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2. Exceptions are generated when ______________.
- A program accesses an illegal address.
- We try to divide 5/0.
- We issue an invalid instruction.
- All of the options.
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3. In forwarding, if the instruction in the EX-stage is a load, and the instruction in the OF-stage uses its loaded value, then there is a stall for __ cycle(s).
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 0
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4. The context of a program refers to the _____________.
- Value of the PC
- Value of the flags registers
- Values contained in all the registers
- All of the options
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5. The _____________ is responsible for identifying and removing the code that does not determine the final output of a program.
- Assembler
- Linker
- Compiler
- Loader
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6. Consider a program that has 60% of load instructions. The ideal CPI is 1 for the program and let 40% of the load instructions suffer from a load use hazard, then the CPI is _________________.
- 1.48
- 0.48
- 1.24
- 0.24
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7. A memory built with just DRAM cells _______________.
- will be too slow.
- will consume too much power.
- will need more storage.
- All of the options
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8. The memory access latency of an application depends on the ________________
- Size of the memory
- Number of ports
- Technology used
- All of the options
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9. The ________ metric verifies if programs have temporal locality.
- Access latency
- Address distance
- Stack distance
- None of the options
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10. We cannot create a memory of just SRAM cells because _____________.
- We need more data storage capacity.
- We cannot afford 50+ cycles per access.
- There will be too many transient errors.
- All of the options.
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