1. What type of parallelism involves executing multiple instructions simultaneously within a single processor?

• Bit-level parallelism (BLP)

• Data-level parallelism (DLP)

• Instruction-level parallelism (ILP)

• Job-level parallelism (JLP)

2. Which of the following technologies helped popularize data-level parallelism (DLP)?

• SIMD and vector machines

• Multicore processors

• Cloud computing

• Utility computing

3. What is the main goal of utility computing?

• To provide free computing resources to all users

• To offer computing resources as a paid service

• To replace traditional CPUs with GPUs

• To interconnect physical devices with the Internet

4. Which protocol does CORBA primarily use for communication?

• TCP/IP

• SOAP

• IIOP

• HTTP

5. What is the key characteristic of a Cyber-Physical System (CPS)?

• It focuses solely on multimedia processing

• It relies purely on hardware without software interaction

• It only operates in virtual environments

• It integrates computation, communication, and control

6. Which type of parallelism emerged with multicore processors and chip multiprocessors (CMPs)?

• Task-level parallelism (TLP)

• Data-level parallelism (DLP)

• Bit-level parallelism (BLP)

• Job-level parallelism (JLP)

7. What is the shared cache in a modern multicore CPU?

• L1 cache

• L3 cache

• DRAM

• L2 cache

8. Which processor type dispatches multiple instruction threads to functional units?

• Analog processor

• Serial processor

• Superscalar processor

• Single-core processor

9. What feature distinguishes a GPU from a CPU?

• Lower power consumption

• Fewer processing cores

• Ability to process millions of polygons per second

• Limited to gaming applications

10. Which language is commonly used in web services and grids for defining service interfaces?

• HTML
  

• SQL
  

• WSDL
  

• XML