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Question #1

ARM v8 was redesigned from v7 to be more like:

A IA-64

B Apple A12X

C ARMv5

D MIPS

Question #2

Any PSW contains:

A Flags, Status bits, and Interrupt enables

B Interrupt enables

C Flags

D Status bits

Question #3

Multi-level memory hierarchy from fastest to slowest:

A Main to L2 cache to L1

B General Registers to L1 cache to L2 cache

C L1 cache to L2 cache to L1 cache

D Disk to Main to L2 cache

Question #4

Which {MIPS, ARM} add instructions should be used for unsigned integers:

A add, adds

B addu, addu

C addi, add

D addu, add

Question #5

An SoC (like the Apple A13/14) can contain which functional elements:

A CPU + GPU cores

B NPU cores + ML unit

C Any of these

D L1 and L2 caches

Question #6

CPU’s Execution Unit contains all these:

A ICU + PSW

B ALU + registers

C CPU + GPU

D ALU + ICU + registers

Question #7

At the Macro architecture level, we address all of which units:

A Just GPU’s

B Just CPU cores

C ICU + ALU + Registers

D Cores and caches

Question #8

J-format is used for which MIPS instruction:

A addi

B bne

C la

D jal

Question #9

I-format is used for which MIPS instruction:

A addu

B jal

C div

D lui

Question #10

R-format is used for which MIPS instruction:

A addi

B bgtz

C subi

D add

Question #11

In general, any level cache may use which form of mapping:

A Set associative

B Any of these

C Direct

D Fully associative

Question #12

A CPU’s store word instruction will write a data word to (with write-though policy):

A L2 cache

B L1 D-cache

C Main memory, L1 D-cache, and L2 cache

D Main memory

Question #13

CPU General Registers are loaded directly from:

A L3 cache

B L1 D-cache

C L2 cache

D L1 I-cache

Question #14

Which register is not a GR in MIPS, but is a GR in ARMv5:

A PC

B SP

C $a0

D PSR

Question #15

For MIPS, where are the C, V, N, Z flags located:

A CPU GR

B CP0 Status register

C CPU Cause register

D CP1 $f2

Question #16

A MIPS CPU core may contain an Integer unit + any of these, except which one:

A up to 4 co-processors

B FPU

C CP0 + CP1

D GPU

Question #17

x86 is what kind of architecture:

A Mixed register

B Load-Store

C Dedicated register

D General register

Question #18

An x86 CPU, 32-bit contains:

A SI, DI, CS, SS registers

B EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX registers, SI, DI, CS, SS registers, and 32-bit ALU

C EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX registers

D 32-bit ALU

Question #19

A CPU core contains which blocks:

A L1 caches + Registers

B Execution Unit + L1 caches

C ALU + Registers

D ALU + L2 cache

Question #20

Currenty used ISA’s include these:

A MIPSIII, ARMv5, IA-32, RISC V

B MIPS32, ARMv6, x86-32, RISC III

C MIPSV, ARMv7, x86-64, RISC IV

D MIPS64, ARMv8, IA-32, RISC V

Question #21

MIPS primitives that ARMv7 does not have:

A beq, bgtz

B syscall, break, lui

C mult, div

D addi, subi

Question #22

ARMv7 primitives that MIPS does not have:

A addi, subi

B push, bkpt, dbg

C syscall, lui

D call, jump

Question #23

An ARMv7 “I-format” immediate value as an unsigned constant can range from 0 to:

A 16,384

B 224

C 4095

D 1023

Question #24

A MIPS “I-format” immediate value as a signed constant can range from 0 to:

A -16,383 to 16,384

B -256 to 255

C -65,565 to 65,564

D -32,768 to 32,767

Question #25

MIPS instruction: lw $r1,($r2) can address how much memory:

A 2 MB

B 4 GiB

C 1 GB

D 32 MiB

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