Processor Pipelining Quiz

What is the analogy used to explain the concept of pipelining in a processor?

• Cooking a meal

• Writing a book

• Building a house

• Sending out invites

In the inefficient method of sending out invites, who addresses the envelopes?

• A professional service

• One of the friends

• The post office

• The person writing the invites

What is the main purpose of pipelining in a processor?

• To slow down the processing speed

• To increase the size of the cache

• To improve efficiency

• To reduce the number of instructions

What is the main limitation of pipelining in a processor?

• It may not benefit programs with branching instructions

• It can only execute one instruction at a time

• It requires a lot of power

• It is not compatible with modern processors

What is the purpose of flushing the pipe in a processor?

• To increase the processing speed

• To add more instructions

• To remove unwanted instructions

• To clean the processor

What is the name of the part of a processor responsible for carrying out mathematical equations?

• RAM

• GPU

• CPU

• ALU

What are the two main types of pipelines in a processor?

• Instruction and Data

• Arithmetic and Logic

• Fetch and Execute

• Input and Output

What does pipelining allow a processor to do simultaneously?

• All of the above

• Fetch and Decode instructions

• Perform arithmetic operations

• Execute multiple instructions

What kind of programs may not benefit much from the effects of pipelining?

• Programs with a single instruction

• Programs with lots of branching instructions

• Programs with small code size

• Programs with no loops

How can the speed of a processor be increased further?

• By increasing the number of cores

• By adding more RAM

• By using pipelining

• By reducing the cache size