Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

WGU C783 - Project Management - TermsApplication areas The areas of expertise, industry, or function where a project is centered. Examples of application areas include architecture, IT, health care, and manufacturing. Business value A quantifiable return on investment. The return can be tangible, such as equipment, money, or market share. The return can also be intangible, such as brand recognition, trademarks, and reputation. Cultural and social environment Type of environment; D...

C952What was the first general-purpose computer called? Who built it? When was it built? - correct answer ENIAC J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly World War II The name of the machine built by Alan Turing - correct answer Colossus What was the first electro-mechanical computer called? Who built it? What was the architecture called? - correct answer Mark-I Howard Aiken Harvard architecture What project invented Magnetic cores served as the main memory technology? - correct an...

WGU 952 - Computer ArchitectureAND operator - correct answer A logical bit- by-bit operation with two operands that calculates a 1 only if there is a 1 in both operands. OR operator - correct answer A logical bit-by-bit operation with two operands that calculates a 1 if there is a 1 in either operand. LDUR - correct answer Load into register instruction LDUR X9, [X22,#64] = load value at X22[64] into X9 STUR - correct answer store into register instruction STUR X9, [X22, #64] = ...

WGU C952 - InstructionsInstruction Set - correct answer The vocabulary of commands understood by a given architecture. Stored-program Concept - correct answer The idea that instructions and data of many types can be stored in memory as numbers and thus be easy to change, leading to the stored-program concept. Word - correct answer A natural unit of access in a computer, usually a group of 32 bits. Doubleword - correct answer Another natural unit of access in a computer, usually a group ...

WGU C952scientific notation - correct answer A single digit to the left of the decimal point Normalized - correct answer A number in floating-point notation that has no leading 0s Fraction - correct answer The value, generally between 0 and 1, placed in the fraction field. The fraction is also called the mantissa or significand Overflow (floating point) - correct answer A situation in which a positive exponent becomes too large to fit in the exponent field Exponent - correct answer I...

WGU C952 Ch2kilobyte - correct answer 10^3 bytes megabyte - correct answer 10^6 bytes gigabyte - correct answer 10^9 bytes terabyte - correct answer 10^12 bytes petabyte - correct answer 10^15 bytes exabyte - correct answer 10^18 bytes zettabyte - correct answer 10^21 bytes yottabyte - correct answer 10^24 bytes Moore's law - correct answer The law that states that integrated circuit resources double every 18-24 months

C952 Computer Architecture Chapter 7Multiprocessor - correct answer A computer system with at least two processors. This computer is in contrast to a uniprocessor, which has one, and is increasingly hard to find today. Task-level parallelism or process-level parallelism: - correct answer Utilizing multiple processors by running independent programs simultaneously. Parallel processing program - correct answer A single program that runs on multiple processors simultaneously. Cluster - cor...

C952 PA 2What is the binary representation of instructions? - correct answer machine language Which key design element changed in 2005 to drive continued improvements in computing capability? - correct answer Multiprocessor architecture Which term refers to the same instruction applied to multiple data streams? - correct answer SIMD What makes vector-based code more efficient than conventional code? - correct answer frequency of pipeline hazards is lower Which two elements are requir...

C952 Computer Architecture - Parallelism via InstructionsMultiple Issue - correct answer A scheme whereby multiple instructions are launched in one clock cycle. Static multiple issue - correct answer An approach to implementing a multiple-issue processor where many decisions are made by the compiler before execution Dynamic multiple issue - correct answer An approach to implementing a multiple issue processor where many decisions are made during execution by the processor. Issue slot - ...