COA_Ch09_Pretest

CISC machines rely on _______________ to tackle instruction complexity.

• macrocode
• microcode
• nanocode
• bytecode

_____________ considers two factors: the number of instructions and the number of data streams that flow into the processor.

• Flynn’s taxonomy
• Faynn’s taxonomy
• Flyan’s taxonomy
• Flewnn’s taxonomy

Program instructions act on the data, unlike data-driven, or dataflow, architectures.

• True
• False

Interconnection networks can be either static or dynamic.

• True
• False

Shared memory MIMD machines can be divided into two categories: ____________ and __________.

• UMA, NUMA
• VMA, NVMA
• UUA, NUUA
• UMA, DUMA

Cloud computing and the classical distributed computing are not the same in all of the concepts they use.

• True
• False

_____________ computers derive their name from drawing an analogy to how blood rhythmically flows through a biological heart.

• Systonic array
• Symbolic array
• Systolic array
• Systoly array

The realization of ______________ computing has prompted many to consider what is known as the technological singularity.

• quanum
• quadratic
• quandum
• quantum

The computation sequence of a dataflow computer can be understood by examining its ______________ graph.

• dataflow
• flow
• sequence flow
• data draw

The analogy of human languages can be compared with the qualities of RISC and CISC.

• True
• False