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Hardware Virtualization and Hypervisor

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Which optimization technique aims to reduce miss penalty?

Critical word first and early restart (correct)

Compiler optimizations

Small and simple first level-cache

Hardware prefetching

What is the purpose of higher associativity in a cache system?

To reduce miss rate (correct)

To reduce hit time

To prioritize read misses over writes

To increase cache bandwidth

Why is addressing translation avoided during indexing of the cache?

To reduce miss penalty (correct)

To increase cache bandwidth

To prioritize read misses over writes

To reduce hit time

What is a common cause of cache miss referred to as coherency?

Coherency miss Signup and view all the answers

How does a multilevel cache system contribute to reducing miss penalty?

By providing additional cache levels Signup and view all the answers

In cache memory, which type uses one transistor per bit to store a bit?

DRAM Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of a hypervisor in a virtual machine environment?

Manages instances of virtual machines Signup and view all the answers

How does hardware virtualization benefit system administrators?

Allows placement of multiple VMs on the same physical server Signup and view all the answers

In assembly language, what is the purpose of translation?

To convert source code to object code for execution Signup and view all the answers

What does a pure assembly language consist of?

Each statement producing exactly one machine instruction Signup and view all the answers

When is translation needed in assembly language?

When a program can be directly executed in the source language Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of translators in programming languages?

Converting source programs to target languages Signup and view all the answers

What is the main advantage of utilizing multiple processors and disks in a system?

Improving performance and increasing throughput Signup and view all the answers

Which principle refers to the tendency of programs to reuse data and instructions they recently used?

Principle of locality Signup and view all the answers

Why should systems favor frequent and common cases over infrequent cases?

To prioritize faster execution of common tasks Signup and view all the answers

What is the main purpose of instruction-level parallelism via pipelining in processors?

To enhance performance by executing more instructions simultaneously Signup and view all the answers

Which type of locality predicts that recently accessed data will be accessed again soon?

Temporal locality Signup and view all the answers

How does taking advantage of parallelism in systems typically impact performance?

It improves performance by leveraging parallel processing Signup and view all the answers