24-2 CS212 P1

What are the three categories of Computer Architecture?

• System Design, Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), Microarchitecture
• Hardware Design, Software Architecture, Network Architecture
• Data Architecture, Application Architecture, System Architecture
• Microprocessor Design, System Software, User Interface Design

What goes in between computer software and hardware in this picture?

• Device Driver
• Firmware
• Instruction Set Architecture
• Operating System

What is the most commonly used data path today?

• parallel data path
• serial data path
• non-pipelined data path
• pipelined data path

Which one of the three categories does computer programming fall under?

• Network Protocols
• Operating Systems
• Instruction Set Architecture
• Data Structures

Identify the following statements if it’s COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE or COMPUTER ORGANIZATION:

Deals with details of circuits, buses, and control logic.

(a)  

Identify the following statements if it’s COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE or COMPUTER ORGANIZATION:

Processor design, memory management units, I/O interfaces.

(a)  

Identify the following statements if it’s COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE or COMPUTER ORGANIZATION:

Processor design, memory management units, I/O interfaces.

(a)  

Identify the following statements if it’s COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE or COMPUTER ORGANIZATION:

Processor design, memory management units, I/O interfaces.

(a)  

Identify the following statements if it’s COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE or COMPUTER ORGANIZATION:

Describes what the computer does, not how it does it.

(a)  

Identify the following image if it’s UMA or NUMA: [Expand the following terms]

(a)