Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines
15.1What the syllabus asks of you
- Show understanding of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) processors
- Show understanding of the importance / use of pipelining and registers in RISC processors
- Show understanding of the four basic computer architectures
- Show understanding of the characteristics of massively parallel computers
- Show understanding of the concept of a virtual machine
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Chapter 15: Processors, parallel processing and virtual machines
Drill this topic
All 15 questions on Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
Make a worksheet
Choose the years and how many questions, then print it with the answers on separate pages.
15 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.