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CDA TEST 1 UPDATED 2025|QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|A+ GRADED
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Who first observed the trend in which the resources(transistors/performance) of an integrated circuit roughly doubled every 18-24 months? Charles Bbage Steve Jobs Bill Gates Gordon Moore Gordon Moore Which term refers to the hiding of complex details? Big Picture Pipelining Abstraction Photolithography Abstraction
Which is not a current scale used in the manufacturing of microprocessors? 7nm 10nm 14nm 1nm 1nm On what silicon structure are microprocessors manufactured? Die Wafer Plate Disc Wafer Of which are a block diagram and flowchart examples? Microprocessor Design Pipelining Abstraction Prediction
Response time and throughput both increase Response time and throughput both decrease Response time remains the same and throughput decreases Throughput remains the same and response time decreases Response time remains the same and throughput decreases For what does the acronym MIPS stand? millions of instructions per second multi-instruction processing system microprocessor image processing system microprocessor interlocked pipeline stages millions of instructions per second A friend recently bought 2 identical hard drives on amazon. if your friend is concerned about losing data if a hard drive fails, which RAID configuration would you recommend to your friend? raid 5 raid 6 raid 0 raid 1
which processor component is responsible for performing operations such as addition and multiplication? register data path alu control unit alu which processor component is responsible for storing small amounts of data bw operations? register data path alu control unit register
input device memory output device on which hard drive component is data stored? read/write heads arm platter spindle platter which hard drive component is responsible for moving the read/write heads? spindle read/write heads platter arm arm which hard drive term refers to the concentric circles on a platter?
track sector block cylinder track which hard drive term refers to the same concentric circle across multiple platters? byte track sector cylinder cylinder which hard drive term refers to the triangle-shape portion of a platter? block sector cylinder track sector
elapsed time search time transfer time seek time search time which hard drive term refers to the time required to read data from or write data to the hard drive? seek time search time elapsed time transfer time transfer time which network topology is most commonly used in local area networks today? bus star ring mesh
star what does the letters CS stand for CSMA-CD network communication protocol? carrier signal collision sense carrier sense collision signal carrier sense what do the letters MA stand for in the CSMA-CD network communication protocol? momentary access multiple access machine address multiple access what does the letter C in CA and CD stand for in the CSMA-CA and CSMA-CD network communication?
can the term systems software refers to the following types of software except assemblers operating systems user software compilers user software an operating system is responsible for each of the following except handling input and output operations protecting system resources executing instructions allocating memory executing instructions which statement best describes a compiler?
translates high-level language statements into assembly language statements translates assembly language statements into binary version translated high-level language statements into binary version translates assembly language statements into high level language statements translates high-level language statements into assembly language statements which statement best describes an assembler? translates high-level language statements into assembly language statements translates assembly language statements into binary version translated high-level language statements into binary version translates assembly language statements into high level language statements translates assembly language statements into binary version in which form does a machine language program exist? none symbolic statements
how many binary digits exist in a nibble? 8 2 1 4 4 which decimal value does the binary number 01001001 rep? 1,001, 137 41 73 which binary number does the decimal value 42 rep? 01010100 00101010 00010101 01010101
which tool is resp for combining independently assembled programs into an executable file? compiler assembler combiner linker linker will a program written in c/c++ that includes assembly language instructions compile successfully(assume no other syntax errors exist)? t f t which assembler directive specifies which label/s can be referenced by an external program? main
which segment of an assembly language program contains the instructions to execute? globl segment code segment data segment text segment text segment which segment of an assembly language program contains the data to use with the program? code segment globl segment data segment text segment data segment what is the last step in creating an executable program? converter
compiler assembler linker linker which 2 sections of memory can change size, as needed as the machine language program executes? dynamic data/heap & stack stack & static data text segment & data segment dynamic data/heap & static data dynamic data/heap & stack which of the following statements about assembler directives is not correct? instructs the assembler directives is not correct? instructs the assembler how to translate the program responsible for producing machine language instructions the .asciiz directive is used to store string values
