CSCI 4717 -- Computer Architecture
Test 3 Study Guide

First of all, I have provided a number of old tests to help you study. When you look at the old tests, be sure to check if the topic that a particular question addresses is included in the list of topics below. Do not panic when you see a question that doesn't make sense or if you think it pertains to an earlier test. Only the topics listed below will be on the test. Also, memory management was covered on test 2 in tests before 2005, so be sure to go back to those when you want to see more sample problems on memory management.

The following is a list of the topics that we've covered since the second test, topics which you will see on the third test. Look for the format of the third test to be alot like that of the first and second tests.

  1. Memory Management
  2. CPU Registers Processor and register organization
  3. CPU Pipelines
  4. RISC Processors
  5. Intstruction-Level Parallelism -- Superscalar processors
  6. SMP and Clusters