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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
List the four phases of the instruction cycle.
💡 Hint: Think about the steps the CPU follows to process an instruction.
Question 2
Easy
What do we call the simple instructions that make up macro instructions?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens at a granular level when an instruction is executed.
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Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
Which phase of the instruction cycle retrieves the instruction from memory?
- Fetch
- Decode
- Execute
💡 Hint: Think about what happens first in the instruction cycle.
Question 2
True or False: Micro instructions can execute multiple clock cycles.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Consider the definition of micro instructions.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Design a simple CPU simulator that illustrates the fetch, decode, execute, and store phases. Show how it handles a set of instructions.
💡 Hint: Think about what each part of the instruction cycle does and how to visually represent it.
Question 2
Using clock grouping, explain how you would optimize a sequence of instructions that includes both load and arithmetic operations.
💡 Hint: Analyze the dependency between operations to determine which can run in parallel.
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