WGU C952 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE - SET 1 -5 EXAMINATION
ACTUAL EXAM 2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS |BRAND NEW!!
Register File - ANSWER-A state element that consists of a set of registers
that can be read and written by supplying a register number to be
accessed.
provides 1024 scalar 32-bit registers for up to 64 threads.
machine language - ANSWER-The language made up of binary-coded
instructions that is used directly by the computer
system software - ANSWER-The set of programs that enables a computer's
hardware devices and application software to work together; it includes the
operating system and utility programs.
Return address - ANSWER-A link to the calling site that allows a procedure
to return to the proper address; in MIPS it is stored in register
,LR (X30)
Caller - ANSWER-The program that instigates a procedure and provides
the necessary parameter values.
Callee - ANSWER-A procedure that executes a series of stored instructions
based on parameters provided by the caller and then returns control to the
caller.
Program counter (PC) - ANSWER-The register that contains the address of
the next instruction to be executed
overflow (floating point) - ANSWER-A situation in which a positive exponent
becomes too large to fit in the exponent field.
,underflow (floating point) - ANSWER-A situation in which a negative
exponent becomes too large to fit in the exponent field.
double precision - ANSWER-A floating-point value represented in 64-bit
words.
single precision - ANSWER-A floating-point value represented in a single
32-bit word.
subword parallelism (data level parallelism) - ANSWER-Given that the
parallelism occurs within a wide word
They are known as well as vector or SIMD, for single instruction, multiple
data (see COD Section 6.6 (Introduction to graphics processing units)). The
rising popularity of multimedia applications led to arithmetic instructions that
support narrower operations that can easily compute in parallel.
, accumulator - ANSWER-Archaic term for register. On-line use of it as a
synonym for "register" is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been
around quite a while
Load-Store Architecture (register-register architecture) - ANSWER-An
instruction set architecture in which all operations are between registers
and data memory may only be accessed via loads of stores
RISC Architecture - ANSWER-Reduced instruction set computer
architecture
Relies on small and simple instructions instead of more complex and
specialized instructions. Most current instruction set employ the
architecture model
High-level-language computer architecture - ANSWER-Proposed in the
1960s, high-level-language architecture failed to make much of a
ACTUAL EXAM 2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS |BRAND NEW!!
Register File - ANSWER-A state element that consists of a set of registers
that can be read and written by supplying a register number to be
accessed.
provides 1024 scalar 32-bit registers for up to 64 threads.
machine language - ANSWER-The language made up of binary-coded
instructions that is used directly by the computer
system software - ANSWER-The set of programs that enables a computer's
hardware devices and application software to work together; it includes the
operating system and utility programs.
Return address - ANSWER-A link to the calling site that allows a procedure
to return to the proper address; in MIPS it is stored in register
,LR (X30)
Caller - ANSWER-The program that instigates a procedure and provides
the necessary parameter values.
Callee - ANSWER-A procedure that executes a series of stored instructions
based on parameters provided by the caller and then returns control to the
caller.
Program counter (PC) - ANSWER-The register that contains the address of
the next instruction to be executed
overflow (floating point) - ANSWER-A situation in which a positive exponent
becomes too large to fit in the exponent field.
,underflow (floating point) - ANSWER-A situation in which a negative
exponent becomes too large to fit in the exponent field.
double precision - ANSWER-A floating-point value represented in 64-bit
words.
single precision - ANSWER-A floating-point value represented in a single
32-bit word.
subword parallelism (data level parallelism) - ANSWER-Given that the
parallelism occurs within a wide word
They are known as well as vector or SIMD, for single instruction, multiple
data (see COD Section 6.6 (Introduction to graphics processing units)). The
rising popularity of multimedia applications led to arithmetic instructions that
support narrower operations that can easily compute in parallel.
, accumulator - ANSWER-Archaic term for register. On-line use of it as a
synonym for "register" is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been
around quite a while
Load-Store Architecture (register-register architecture) - ANSWER-An
instruction set architecture in which all operations are between registers
and data memory may only be accessed via loads of stores
RISC Architecture - ANSWER-Reduced instruction set computer
architecture
Relies on small and simple instructions instead of more complex and
specialized instructions. Most current instruction set employ the
architecture model
High-level-language computer architecture - ANSWER-Proposed in the
1960s, high-level-language architecture failed to make much of a
