- Manually convert the decimal number 877 to binary and then to hexadecimal. Do not use tables. Show how you arrived at your answers.
- Determine the three most popular formats for digital color images and construct a table comparing the capabilities and features of each.
- Diagram the typical register usage in a CPU.
- Differentiate between RISC, CISC, and other traditional architectures.
- Identify the components of the CPU and describe how each component affect performance.
- Explain the general role of buses in computers and describe the different buses and each of their individual purposes.
- Compare and contrast cache and virtual memory.
- Identify some of the key principles of memory management.
- Discuss data-level parallelism (DLP): vector, SIMD, and GPU processors.
