COA_Ch09_Exam

CISC architectures include a large number of instructions that directly access memory.

• True
• False

Most of the CPU architectures today have a combination of RISC and CISC

• True
• False

There are two major parallel architectural paradigms, ______________ and _________________.

• Single multiprocessors (SMPs), massively parallel processors (MPPs)
• symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), multiple parallel processors (MPPs)
• systematic multiprocessors (SMPs), massively parallel processors (MPPs)
• symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), massively parallel processors (MPPs)

The superscalar components analogous to our additional highway lanes are called ________________units.

• execution
• production
• transaction
• compilation

Multistage networks are often called ____________ networks.

• shuffle
• ruffle
• shunt
• shuttle

Pervasive computing are the systems that are totally embedded in the environment, simple to use, completely connected, typically mobile, and often invisible.

• True
• False

Neural network computers are composed of a large number of simple processing elements that individually handle one piece of a much larger problem.

• True
• False

DNA computing uses DNA as software and enzymes as hardware.

• True
• False

___________ are trained by use of either supervised or unsupervised learning algorithms.

• Perceptron
• Proton
• Perton
• Percepton

Public-resource computing is also known as _______________ computing.

• global
• local
• static
• dynamic