CEA 201 - Unit 17, 18(muti)/ Computer architecture/ Exam Questions and answers. Rated A+

CEA 201 - Unit 17, 18(muti)/ Computer architecture/ Exam Questions and answers. Rated A+ a - -_________ causes results issuing from one functional unit to be fed immediately into another functional unit and so on. a.Chaining b.Rollover c.Passive standby d.Pipelining a - -With ________ instructions are simultaneously issued from multiple threads to the execution units of a superscalar processor. a.SMT e-threaded scalar e-grained multithreading multiprocessing c - -The ________ contains control fields, such as the vector count, that determine how many elements in the vector registers are to be processed. r-mask register r-activity count r-status register r-instruction register d - -Replicating the entire processor on a single chip with each processor handling separate threads is _________. leaved multithreading ed multithreading taneous multithreading multiprocessing c - -A ________ is a dispatchable unit of work within a process that includes a processor context and its own data area for a stack. ss ss switch d d switch b - -An operation that switches the processor from one process to another by saving all the process control data, register, and other information for the first and replacing them with the process information for the second is: