CS251a
Advanced Computer Architecture
Advanced Computer Architecture
There will be two in-class exams. You must use a laptop to complete the exam.
You may use any resources available to you – EXCEPT LLMs. I can’t watch all your screens at once.
These questions will be primarily short-essay
questions, focusing on concept synthesis and relationships.
It is strongly preferred to keep your answers short and to the point.
I will only test on subjects that are discussed in
class or are in the required readings, though the question may be
regarding an aspect which we did not directly discuss.
Links:
The question format is somewhat inspired by the UW architecture qual, and so you could look there for a number of additional examples. There are a number of questions there that are excellent, but some of them are of course out-of-scope, feel free to ask if it is not clear.
I pulled a few from the above which are questions that I think would be relevant. The ones on our test may be slightly more specific to the material that we have covered (eg. these questions don’t ask about Tomasulo’s algorithm or R10K approach, but I could ask about those).
It goes without saying that even though you have a laptop to write down your answers, you may not consult with others about the questions – it is intended to be an individual test. And as mentioned before, the use of LLMs is prohibited, they are simply getting too good. : _ )