Computer Architecture Question Bank
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER ARCHITECHTURE
QUESTION BANK
Unit –I
Part-A
- Draw the basic functional units of a computer.
- What is Bus? Draw the single bus structure
- Briefly explain Primary storage and secondary storage.
- What is register?
- Define RAM.
- Give short notes on system software.
- Write down the operation of control unit.
- Define Memory address register.
- What is stack & queues?
- Define Addressing modes.
- What are micro benchmarks?
- What are relative MIPS? Expand it.
- Define Amdahl’s law.
- Write the basic performance equation.
- Define clock rate.
- Mention the types of Opcode.
- List out the various addressing techniques.
- Draw the flow of Instruction Cycle
- Suggest about program counter (PC).
- List out the types in displacement addressing.
- What is meant by stack addressing?
- What is meant by response time and throughput?
- Draw the diagram for processor cache.
- What is the advantage of actual target workload in performance evaluation
- What is the dis-advantage of micro benchmark in performance evaluation
Part-B
- Write briefly about computer fundamental system.
- Explain memory unit functions.
- Explain memory locations and addresses.
- Explain in detail about the Amdahl’s law.
- Classify instruction set Architecture? Give Examples.
- What is bus explain it detail manner.
- Explain briefly about performance evaluation by using various benchmarks. Also list out the types of benchmarks along with its advantage and dis-advantage.
- Explain the operations of stacks and queues.
- Discuss briefly about the memory operations.
