Computer Architecture and Virtual Machines Quiz

Reduced Instruction Set Computing is abbreviated as ______.

• RISC

• CISC

• MIPS

• ARM

In CISC, a single instruction can be more ______, involving more loading of data from memory.

• simple

• complex

• efficient

• repetitive

RISC uses ______-length instructions.

• variable

• fixed

• dynamic

• short

Pipelining is a form of instruction level ______.

• sequencing

• parallelism

• optimization

• synchronization

In a virtual machine, the ______ operating system controls the physical hardware.

• guest

• host

• secondary

• primary

A ______ Adder is a circuit that performs binary addition of two individual bits and an output carry bit.

• Half

• Full

• Single

• Double

The order of operator precedence in Boolean Algebra starts with not, then and, and then ______.

• nor

• or

• xor

• nand

A ______ Logic Circuit is one where the output depends only on the input values.

• Sequential

• Combinational

• Parallel

• Concurrent

A flip-flop is a bi-stable circuit that can store 1 bit of ______ data.

• binary

• decimal

• hexadecimal

• octal

In the context of computer architectures, SIMD stands for Single Instruction Stream ______ Data Stream.

• Single

• Multiple

• Sequential

• Concurrent