WGU C952 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
EXAM WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
WGU C952
ISZACKBD 2025.2026 WGU C952
,WGU C952 COMPUTER
ARCHITECTURE EXAM WESTERN
GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
\Q\.Personal Computer(PC) - ANSWER-✔A computer designed for use by an individual, usually
incorporating a graphics display, a keyboard, and a mouse
\Q\.Server - ANSWER-✔A computer used for running larger programs for multiple users, often
simultaneously, and typically accessed only via a network
\Q\.Supercomputer - ANSWER-✔A class of computers with the highest performance and cost;
they are configured as servers and typically cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars
\Q\.Embedded computer - ANSWER-✔A computer inside another device used for running one
predetermined application or collection of software.
\Q\.Personal mobile devices(PMDs) - ANSWER-✔Are small wireless devices to connect to the
internet; they rely on batteries for power, and software is installed by downloading apps.
Conventional examples are smart phones and tables
\Q\.Cloud computing - ANSWER-✔refers to large collections of servers that provide services
over the internet; some providers rent dynamically varying numbers of servers as a utility
,\Q\.Software as a Service (SaaS) - ANSWER-✔delivers software and data as a service over the
internet, usually via a thin program such as a browser that runs on local client devices, instead
of binary code that must be installed, and runs wholly on that device. Examples include web
search and social networking
\Q\.Acronym - ANSWER-✔A word constructed by taking the initial letters of a string of words.
For example: RAM is an acronym for Random Access Memory, and CPU is an acronym for
Central Processing Unit
\Q\.Terabyte(TB) - ANSWER-✔Originally 1,099,511,627,776(2^40) bytes, although
communications and secondary storage systems developers started using the term to mean
1,000,000,000,000(10^12) bytes. To reduce confusion, we now use the term
\Q\.tebibyte(TiB) - ANSWER-✔for 2^40 bytes
\Q\.Moore's Law - ANSWER-✔States that integrated circuit resources double every 18-24
months
\Q\.Abstraction to Simplify Design - ANSWER-✔Used to characterize the design at different
levels of representation; lower-level details are hidden to offer a simpler model at higher levels
\Q\.Common Case Fast - ANSWER-✔Will tend to enhance performance better than optimizing
the rare case.
\Q\.Performance via parallelism - ANSWER-✔Since the dawn of computing, computer architects
have offered designs that get more performance by computer operations in parallel
\Q\.Pipelining - ANSWER-✔Moves multiple operations through hardware units that each do a
piece of an operation, akin to water flowing through a pipeline
, \Q\.Prediction - ANSWER-✔In some cases it can be faster on average to guess the start working
rather than wait until you know for sure, assuming that the mechanism to recover from a
misprediction is not too expensive and your prediction is relatively accurate.
\Q\.Hierarchy of Memories - ANSWER-✔This is used to address conflicting demands of fast,
large, and cheap memory with the fastest, smallest, and most expensive memory per bit at the
top of the hierarchy and the slowest, largest, and cheapest per bit at the bottom.
\Q\.Dependability via Redundancy - ANSWER-✔We make systems Dependable by including
redundant components that can take over when a failure occurs.
\Q\.System Software - ANSWER-✔Software that provides services that are commonly useful,
including operating systems, compilers, loaders, and assemblers
\Q\.Operating system - ANSWER-✔Supervising program that manages the resources of a
computer for the benefit of the programs that run on that computer
\Q\.Compiler - ANSWER-✔A program that translates high-level language statements into
assembly language statements
\Q\.Instruction - ANSWER-✔A command that computer hardware understands and obeys
\Q\.Assembler - ANSWER-✔A program that translates a symbolic version of instructions into the
binary version
\Q\.High-level programming language - ANSWER-✔A portable language such as C, C++, Java, or
Visual Basic that is composed of words and algebraic notation that can be translated by a
compiler into assembly language
EXAM WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
WGU C952
ISZACKBD 2025.2026 WGU C952
,WGU C952 COMPUTER
ARCHITECTURE EXAM WESTERN
GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
\Q\.Personal Computer(PC) - ANSWER-✔A computer designed for use by an individual, usually
incorporating a graphics display, a keyboard, and a mouse
\Q\.Server - ANSWER-✔A computer used for running larger programs for multiple users, often
simultaneously, and typically accessed only via a network
\Q\.Supercomputer - ANSWER-✔A class of computers with the highest performance and cost;
they are configured as servers and typically cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars
\Q\.Embedded computer - ANSWER-✔A computer inside another device used for running one
predetermined application or collection of software.
\Q\.Personal mobile devices(PMDs) - ANSWER-✔Are small wireless devices to connect to the
internet; they rely on batteries for power, and software is installed by downloading apps.
Conventional examples are smart phones and tables
\Q\.Cloud computing - ANSWER-✔refers to large collections of servers that provide services
over the internet; some providers rent dynamically varying numbers of servers as a utility
,\Q\.Software as a Service (SaaS) - ANSWER-✔delivers software and data as a service over the
internet, usually via a thin program such as a browser that runs on local client devices, instead
of binary code that must be installed, and runs wholly on that device. Examples include web
search and social networking
\Q\.Acronym - ANSWER-✔A word constructed by taking the initial letters of a string of words.
For example: RAM is an acronym for Random Access Memory, and CPU is an acronym for
Central Processing Unit
\Q\.Terabyte(TB) - ANSWER-✔Originally 1,099,511,627,776(2^40) bytes, although
communications and secondary storage systems developers started using the term to mean
1,000,000,000,000(10^12) bytes. To reduce confusion, we now use the term
\Q\.tebibyte(TiB) - ANSWER-✔for 2^40 bytes
\Q\.Moore's Law - ANSWER-✔States that integrated circuit resources double every 18-24
months
\Q\.Abstraction to Simplify Design - ANSWER-✔Used to characterize the design at different
levels of representation; lower-level details are hidden to offer a simpler model at higher levels
\Q\.Common Case Fast - ANSWER-✔Will tend to enhance performance better than optimizing
the rare case.
\Q\.Performance via parallelism - ANSWER-✔Since the dawn of computing, computer architects
have offered designs that get more performance by computer operations in parallel
\Q\.Pipelining - ANSWER-✔Moves multiple operations through hardware units that each do a
piece of an operation, akin to water flowing through a pipeline
, \Q\.Prediction - ANSWER-✔In some cases it can be faster on average to guess the start working
rather than wait until you know for sure, assuming that the mechanism to recover from a
misprediction is not too expensive and your prediction is relatively accurate.
\Q\.Hierarchy of Memories - ANSWER-✔This is used to address conflicting demands of fast,
large, and cheap memory with the fastest, smallest, and most expensive memory per bit at the
top of the hierarchy and the slowest, largest, and cheapest per bit at the bottom.
\Q\.Dependability via Redundancy - ANSWER-✔We make systems Dependable by including
redundant components that can take over when a failure occurs.
\Q\.System Software - ANSWER-✔Software that provides services that are commonly useful,
including operating systems, compilers, loaders, and assemblers
\Q\.Operating system - ANSWER-✔Supervising program that manages the resources of a
computer for the benefit of the programs that run on that computer
\Q\.Compiler - ANSWER-✔A program that translates high-level language statements into
assembly language statements
\Q\.Instruction - ANSWER-✔A command that computer hardware understands and obeys
\Q\.Assembler - ANSWER-✔A program that translates a symbolic version of instructions into the
binary version
\Q\.High-level programming language - ANSWER-✔A portable language such as C, C++, Java, or
Visual Basic that is composed of words and algebraic notation that can be translated by a
compiler into assembly language
