Test Your Knowledge: CPU Architecture Quiz

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Gensen Huang

Created 6/11/2024

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_(computing)
Do you think you're a computer whiz? Put your knowledge to the test with this challenging CPU architecture quiz. See how many correct answers you can get out of 10!

Do you think you're a computer whiz? Put your knowledge to the test with this challenging CPU architecture quiz. See how many correct answers you can get out of 10!

1. What is Intel's SIMD extension called?

SSE
VMX
VLIW
MMU

2. What does ILP stand for in CPU design?

Integrated Loop Processing
Instruction Level Parallelism
Instant Logic Processing
Immediate Load Procedure

3. What was a significant CPU in the early 2000s known for its high ILP and power consumption?

Intel Core i7
Intel Pentium 4
AMD Athlon XP
IBM System/360

4. What technique involves executing instructions out of order to improve CPU performance?

Pipelining
Out-of-order execution
Superscalar execution
Branch prediction

5. Which CPU architecture is known for implementing multiple AGUs to handle parallel address calculations?

Intel Sandy Bridge
ARM Cortex-A9
IBM PowerPC
MIPS R3000

6. Which unit in a CPU is responsible for managing memory addresses during execution?

CU
ALU
MMU
AGU

7. Moore's Law predicts the doubling of transistors in integrated circuits every...

Year
Two years
Three years
Five years

8. What kind of tasks are central processing units (CPUs) primarily designed to handle?

Graphics Processing
General Computing
Cryptographic Operations
Network Traffic

9. Which of the following techniques helps avoid hazards and keeps CPU pipelines full?

Speculative Execution
VLIW
Throughput Computing
Half-Duplex Logic

10. What type of CPU design increases ILP by executing instructions at rates surpassing one instruction per clock cycle?

Superscalar
In-order Execution
Multi-threaded
Speculative

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