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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is a control hazard?
💡 Hint: Think about waiting times in decision-making.
Question 2
Easy
What can cause a branch decision delay?
💡 Hint: Consider situations where a choice has to be made.
Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation
Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What is a control hazard?
- A dependency between data
- A situation that delays instruction fetching
- An execution error
💡 Hint: It has to do with branches, not data.
Question 2
True or False: Control hazards can be reduced by increasing a processor's pipeline depth.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Consider the relationship between depth and waiting times.
Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Consider a system with a 10-stage pipeline experiencing a branch every 4 cycles. Calculate the expected delay due to control hazards, assuming each delay causes a stall of 1 cycle.
💡 Hint: Break it down into how often branches happen relative to the number of stages.
Question 2
Evaluate how dynamic branch prediction could help mitigate the impact of control hazards in a high-frequency trading application.
💡 Hint: Think about how tracking history informs future decisions.
Challenge and get performance evaluation