UTK Notes

Home / CS230 / Quizzes / Quiz 2

• Quiz 2
  • Question 1
  • Question 2
  • Question 3
  • Question 4
  • Question 5
  • Question 6
  • Question 7
  • Question 8
  • Question 9
  • Question 10

Quiz 2

Question 1

Which of the following describes the observation that transistors in a computing unit (such as a CPU) will double every two years.

Moore’s Law

Question 2

An instruction that does one thing or another based on a condition, such as equals, not equals, etc, is known as which of the following?

branch

Question 3

Memory build directly into each CPU core that stores 32 bits for a 32-bit machine or 64 bits for a 64-bit machine is called which of the following?

register

Question 4

The operating system, such as Linux or Windows, runs in which of the following spaces?

system space

Question 5

Local variables in C++ get stored in which segment of RAM?

stack

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT found inside of the CPU?

RAM

Question 7

Which of the following is used by user space to request services from the operating system in system space?

system call

Question 8

Generic instructions, such as add and sub run in which of the following CPU modes?

unprivileged mode

Question 9

Which of the following tools converts object code into an executable?

linker

Question 10

Doing more things simultaneously (like with a multiple core CPU) is called which of the following?

parallelism