Level 3 Year 1 Unit 2 Quiz 01

Pipelining breaks the instruction into

• 4 stages

• 2 stages

• 3 stages

• 5 stages

What is a Register

What is the purpose of pipelining in computer architecture?

• To break the instruction into multiple stages

• To execute instructions in parallel

• To increase the clock speed of the processor

• To reduce the number of transistors in the processor

What are the stages involved in pipelining?

• Fetch, Decode, Execute, Writeback

• Fetch, Decode, Execute, Memory

• Fetch, Decode, Execute, Branch

• Fetch, Decode, Execute, Cache

Registers hold a _____ of code in the CPU

Cache is faster than RAM

• True

• False

Quad core means a CPU can execute how many instructions in parallel

• 3

• 8

• 6

• 4

What is the purpose of pipelining in computer architecture?

• To break the instruction into multiple stages

• To execute instructions in parallel

• To increase the clock speed of the processor

• To reduce the number of transistors in the processor

What is the difference between cache and RAM?

• Cache is faster but has less capacity than RAM

• Cache is slower but has more capacity than RAM

• Cache and RAM have the same speed and capacity

• Cache and RAM have different speeds but the same capacity

What are the advantages of pipelining?

• Increased instruction throughput

• Reduced instruction latency

• Improved performance

• All of the above