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Published	11/04/2024	Name the 3 categories where system software is used & at least one example.
Published	11/04/2024	What is the connection to implementation in Java vs C?
Published	11/04/2024	What does "implementation defined" mean?
Published	11/04/2024	Define what a program is.
Published	11/04/2024	What is the connection/difference between a process and a program?
Published	11/04/2024	Describe the Mark-and-Sweep garbage collection.
Published	11/14/2024	Define the term virus.
Published	11/14/2024	Explain the very generic idea of a buffer overflow bug. (1 sentence)
Published	11/14/2024	How does the representation of floating point numbers work? What is the main limitation?
Published	11/14/2024	What is the numerical form of a floating point (How can we generally describe a fp number)?
Published	11/14/2024	C: What is the difference between single precision and double presicion for floating point representation?
Published	11/14/2024	floating point normalized values - Descibe their encoding.
Published	11/14/2024	floating point denormalized values - Descibe their encoding and meaning.
Published	11/14/2024	floating point special values - Descibe their encoding and meaning.
Published	11/14/2024	Name 4 floating point rounding options.
Published	11/14/2024	How to create the binary representation of a floating point number?
Published	11/14/2024	What is a benchmark?
Published	11/14/2024	What are performance metric(s)?
Published	11/14/2024	What is the CPE-Measurement? (in regards to optimization)
Published	11/14/2024	Give the Formula for Program Execution Time. (in regards to optimization)
Published	11/14/2024	Frank asks you to explain the concept of pipelined hardware, to make sure you don’t forget about him. Imagine a drawing of pipelined hardware.
Published	11/14/2024	What is the hype about “superscalar processors”?
Published	11/14/2024	Define latency.
Published	11/14/2024	Define what's meant by cycles/issue. (in regards to optimization)
Published	11/14/2024	When is performance latency bound and when is it throughput bound?
Published	11/20/2024	What is a cache miss?
Published	11/20/2024	(Cache performance metrics) - Define Miss Rate (Hit Rate)
Published	11/20/2024	(Cache performance metrics) - Define Hit Time
Published	11/20/2024	(Cache performance metrics) - Define Miss Penalty
Published	11/20/2024	Name the 4 types of cache miss? (hint: 4 C's)
Published	11/20/2024	Visualise the general cache organization in terms of S,E,B. Frank is curious what the corresponding cache size is, can you help him?
Published	11/20/2024	Name the steps in a cache read based on SEB structure of cache. (4 steps)
Published	11/20/2024	cache write - What to do on a write-hit? (Name and summarize the 2 options.)
Published	11/20/2024	cache write - What to do on a write-miss? (Name and summarize the 2 options.)
Published	11/20/2024	locality - Why is it important (conceptually)? Name the 2 kinds.
Published	11/20/2024	How to do a cache miss analysis for nested loops?
Published	11/20/2024	Def: What is the control flow of the CPU?
Published	11/20/2024	Def: What is an exception?
Published	11/20/2024	Differentiate between the two things that can result in two kinds of exceptions.
Published	11/20/2024	Name 4 types of exceptions.
Published	11/20/2024	How do exception vectors work?
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