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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is a cache hit?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when data retrieval is quick.
Question 2
Easy
What happens during a cache miss?
💡 Hint: What does it mean when a cache search fails?
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Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What does a cache hit mean?
- Data is retrieved from main memory.
- Data is retrieved from cache.
- Data retrieval failed.
💡 Hint: Think about the efficiency of data retrieval.
Question 2
True or False: A cache miss is preferable to a cache hit.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Consider the implications of data access speed.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
Consider a direct-mapped cache with 32 lines and a block size of 8 bytes. Calculate the cache line for a byte address of 5280.
💡 Hint: Use division for block number, followed by modulus for the cache line.
Question 2
If a direct-mapped cache has 64 lines and a word size of 4 bytes, how many blocks can the cache store if the total cache size is 16 KB?
💡 Hint: Explore the relationship between total size, block size, and cache lines.
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