Designing and Evaluating an I/O System Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) PDF Download

MCQ 1: Having load before the store in running program order, then interchanging this order, result in a

1. waw hazard
2. structural hazard
3. war hazards
4. control hazard

MCQ 2: A queue holding data while the data are waiting to be written in memory is known as

1. read buffer
2. queue buffer
3. write buffer
4. data buffer

MCQ 3: Which one of the following is used to increase the width of the cache address tag?

1. process-identity tag
2. process-identifier term
3. process-identifier tag
4. process-identify tag

MCQ 4: The average time for reading/writing the 512-byte sector for the disk rotating at 10,000 RPM when its time is 6 ms, its transfer rate is 50 MB/sec, and its controller overhead is 0.2 ms

1. 2 ms
2. 3.3 ms
3. 4.7 ms
4. 5 ms

MCQ 5: The routing information usually consists of the destination address, for

1. source routing
2. destination routing
3. distributed routing
4. destination switching