Computer Organization Questions and Answers – Performance of Caches

This set of Computer Organization and Architecture Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Performance of Caches”.

1. The key factor/s in commercial success of a computer is/are ________
a) Performance
b) Cost
c) Speed
d) Both Performance and Cost
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2. The main objective of the computer system is ________
a) To provide optimal power operation
b) To provide the best performance at low cost
c) To provide speedy operation at low power consumption
d) All of the mentioned
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3. A common measure of performance is ________
a) Price/performance ratio
b) Performance/price ratio
c) Operation/price ratio
d) None of the mentioned
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4. The performance depends on ________
a) The speed of execution only
b) The speed of fetch and execution
c) The speed of fetch only
d) The hardware of the system only
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5. The main purpose of having memory hierarchy is to ________
a) Reduce access time
b) Provide large capacity
c) Reduce propagation time
d) Reduce access time & Provide large capacity
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6. The memory transfers between two variable speed devices are always done at the speed of the faster device.
a) True
b) False
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7. An effective to introduce parallelism in memory access is by _______
a) Memory interleaving
b) TLB
c) Pages
d) Frames
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8. The performance of the system is greatly influenced by increasing the level 1 cache.
a) True
b) False
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9. Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B can execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster.
a) A
b) B
c) Both take the same time
d) Insufficient information
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10. If the instruction Add R1, R2, R3 is executed in a system which is pipelined, then the value of S is (Where S is a term of the Basic performance equation).
a) 3
b) ~2
c) ~1
d) 6
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