Baguio College of Technology

Harrison Road, Baguio City

2nd Grading Examination
Computer Architecture
Mr. Jerichko Bauer L. Laroco

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MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter of the Best answer. Any kind of erasures will be considered wrong. No using of pencil,
frixion/friction pen only Black or Blue pen. (2pts each)

1. ARM evolution has a high speed, small die and a?

a. Low power consumption c. Multiple instructions per cycle
b. Faster cache access d. All of the above

2. What is PDA In regards of hand held games, phones?

a. Pitch Detection Algorithm c. Pushdown Automation
b. Personal Digital Assistant d. None of the above

3. What Acorn produce in 1985?

a. ARM1 & ARM2 c. ARM3 & ARM4
b. ARM3 d. None of the above

4. What Acorn produce in 1999?

a. ARM1 & ARM2 c. ARM3 & ARM4
b. ARM3 d. None of the above

5. Acorn, VLSI and Apple computer founded by?

a. ARM Ltd. c. ARM Corp.
b. ARM Inc. d. None of the above

6. ARM systems categories are embedded real time.

a. False b. True

7. What Application Platform is not supported by ARM systems?

a. Android OS. c. Symbian OS.
b. Linux OS. d. Palm OS.

8. Is System clock speed is measured in Hz?

a. False b. True

9. Clock rate, Clock cycle, Clock click and cycle time is the same?
a. False b. True

10. What is not a clock speed key parameter?

a. Performance c. Cost
b. Security d. None of the above

11. What is MIPS?

a. Millions of instructions per set c. Minimal Instructions per second
b. Millions of instructions per second d. None of the above

12. System Performance Evaluation Corporation or SPEC’s CPU2006 for computation bound has 17 floating point
programs in?
a. C c. Fortran
b. C++ d. All of the above

13. Founder or Creator of AMDA67?

a. Steve Jobs c. Gene Amdhal
b. Gene Amdahl d. Jane Amdhal

14. What is a Program Concept?

a. Hardwired systems are inflexible c. Supplies a new set of control signal
b. General purpose hardware that can do d. All of the above
different task.

15. Where temporary storage of code and results is needed.

a. Main Memory c. Data
b. Instruction Set d. None of the above
FILLINTHEBLANKS: Complete the diagram. Any kind of erasures will be considered wrong. No using of pencil, frixion/friction
pen only Black or Blue pen. (5 pts each blank)

1. Possible Organization of an Embedded System Diagram

2. Instruction cycle with interrupts