Practice Introduction - 7.1 | 7. Pipelining and Parallel Processing in Computer Architecture | Computer and Processor Architecture
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is pipelining?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how instructions can be handled in stages.

Question 2

Easy

Define parallel processing.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how multiple cores can work at once.

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Question 1

What technique allows overlapping execution stages in computer architecture?

  • Pipelining
  • Parallel Processing
  • Multiprocessing

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember the flow of instruction stages.

Question 2

Parallel processing improves performance through executing tasks ___?

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the impact on large computations.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Analyze a scenario where pipelining is not implemented. How would that affect CPU performance?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on how many instructions are in a CPU and the time taken for sequential processing.

Question 2

Consider tasks executed in parallel processing. If one task is dependent on another, discuss how this might affect efficiency.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how tasks rely on data from one another.

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