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    The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about superscalar processors and instruction-level parallelism. The questions cover topics such as the architectures superscalar approaches can be used on, the essence of the superscalar approach, types of dependencies between instructions, machine parallelism versus instruction-level parallelism, instruction issue policies, and the processor that introduced out-of-order execution. The document is a quiz that tests understanding of key concepts in superscalar processor design and exploiting instruction-level parallelism.

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    The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about superscalar processors and instruction-level parallelism. The questions cover topics such as the architectures superscalar approaches can be used on, the essence of the superscalar approach, types of dependencies between instructions, machine parallelism versus instruction-level parallelism, instruction issue policies, and the processor that introduced out-of-order execution. The document is a quiz that tests understanding of key concepts in superscalar processor design and exploiting instruction-level parallelism.

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    The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about superscalar processors and instruction-level parallelism. The questions cover topics such as the architectures superscalar approaches can be used on, the essence of the superscalar approach, types of dependencies between instructions, machine parallelism versus instruction-level parallelism, instruction issue policies, and the processor that introduced out-of-order execution. The document is a quiz that tests understanding of key concepts in superscalar processor design and exploiting instruction-level parallelism.

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    The superscalar approach can be used on __________ architecture.

    a. CISC
    b. Neither RISC nor CISC
    c. RISC
    d. Both RISC and CISC

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    The essence of the ________ approach is the ability to execute instructions independently and concurrently in different pipelines.

    a. scalar
    b. flow dependency
    c. superscalar
    d. branch

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    The situation where the second instruction needs data produced by the first instruction to execute is referred to as __________.

    a. output dependency
    b. antidependency
    c. procedural dependency
    d. true data dependency

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    The instructions following a branch have a _________ on the branch and cannot be executed until the branch is executed.

    a. output dependency
    b. true data dependency
    c. procedural dependency
    d. resource dependency

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    Instead of the first instruction producing a value that the second instruction uses, with ___________ the second instruction destroys a
    value that the first instruction uses.

    a. resource conflict
    b. in-order issue
    c. out-of-order completion
    d. antidependency

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    __________ exists when instructions in a sequence are independent and thus can be executed in parallel by overlapping.

    a. Machine parallelism
    b. Instruction issue
    c. Instruction-level parallelism
    d. Flow dependency

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    _________ is determined by the number of instructions that can be fetched and executed at the same time and by the speed and
    sophistication of the mechanisms that the processor uses to find independent instructions.

    a. Instruction-level parallelism
    b. Machine parallelism
    c. Procedural dependency
    d. Output dependency

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    ________ is a protocol used to issue instructions.

    a. Scalar
    b. SIMD
    c. Micro-ops
    d. Instruction issue policy

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    ________ is used in scalar RISC processors to improve the performance of instructions that require multiple cycles.

    a. In-order completion
    b. Out-of-order issue
    c. In-order issue
    d. Out-of-order completion

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    The ________ introduced a full-blown superscalar design with out-of-order execution.

    a. Pentium Pro
    b. 386
    c. 486
    d. Pentium

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