COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE MODELS

Early computers, such as the Atanasoff–Berry computer, were referred to as .....

• Programmable

• Non reprogrammable

• Reprogrammable

• 1st Generation

Non reprogrammable computers did not have storage systems because...

• No program instructions available

• No hardware storage

• Too expensive

• Technological issues

All modern computers use what kind of model?

• Program model

• CPU and RAM model

• Stored program model

• Hard drive storage model

What are the two main architectural models that use the stored-program model?

• Processing Architecture

• Storage Architecture

• Harvard Architecture

• Von Neumann Architecture

• Desktop Architecture

What architecture stores both program instructions and data in main memory

• Processing Architecture

• Harvard Architecture

• PC Architecture

• Von Neumann Architecture

When the CPU decodes and executes an instruction and then repeats. This is called the..

• Fetch-decode-execute cycle

• Decode-execute-fetch- cycle

• Execute-decode-fetch- cycle

• Execute-fetch-process-cycle

Which of the images below demonstrates the Von Neumann Architecture

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The computer architecture that uses different memory spaces for instructions and data is called..

• Harvard Architecture

• Contemporary Architecture

• Grid computing Architecture

• Cluster computing Architecture

What computer architecture simultaneously reads or writes data from the data memory

• Von Neumann Architecture

• PC Architecture

• Storage processing Architecture

• Harvard Architecture

What is the full meaning of SIMD?

• Single Instruction Multiple Data

• Small Instruction Multiple Data

• Single Instruction Multiplexing Data

• Single Instruction Multiple Digits