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98-Comp-A3, Computer Architecture — National Exams, May 2013. Open-book, 3 hours; six questions of equal value (20 marks each); FIVE constitute a complete exam (all six answered below as a complete study resource).
Reference texts: Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 6th ed. — instruction encoding & the stored-program principle (Ch.2, Q1), memory addressing & data representation (Ch.2, Q2), cache organization & memory hierarchy (Ch.5, Q3 & Q6), procedure-call conventions & unsigned arithmetic (Ch.2–3, Q4), and CPU performance / the multicycle datapath (Ch.1 & Ch.4, Q5) — covering all six questions.
