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QUESTION 1 . ______________ allow(s) a computer to invoke procedures that use resources on another computer Pervasive computing Remote procedure calls (RPCs) Cloud computing Global computing QUESTION 2 The simplest example of a neural net is the: CPu perceptron systolic array supervised learning network QUESTION 3 The first company in the world to manufacture and sell what it identifies as a quantum computer is: D-Wave Computers Cray Google Intel QUESTION 4 A ______________ is a collection of distributed workstations that works in parallel only while the nodes are not being used as regular workstations. network of workstations network of nodes network of servers collection of workstations QUESTION 5 SIMD stands for single instruction stream, multiple device streams single instruction stream, multiple data streams single instruction stream, multiple display streams single input stream, multiple data streams QUESTION 6 ____________ delays the binding process until the process is actually running. Run-time binding Late binding Book binding Time binding QUESTION 7 . __________________ schedules the processor giving preference to the job with the shortest execution time Round robin scheduling Shortest job first scheduling Last in first scheduling First-come, first-served scheduling QUESTION 8 The _____________ is the core of the operating system. event kernel ALU CPU QUESTION 9 ___________ share a single centralized memory Coupled multiprocessors Loosely coupled multiprocessors Tightly coupled multiprocessors Non-coupled multiprocessors QUESTION 10 ___________ allows multiple processes to run concurrently Multiprocessing Multitasking Multithreading Multischeduling QUESTION 11 _____________ gives the programmer direct access to the underlying machine architecture. None listed Assembly language Multitasking Dynamic link libraries QUESTION 12 _____________ is a classification for software that provides services above the operating system layer and below the application program layer Coreware Middleware Software Hardware QUESTION 13 A user interface is a program, or small set of programs, that constitutes the _____________. CUi display manager kernel process manager QUESTION 14 ________________ contains constants and literals used by the embedded program and is stored here to protect them from accidental overwrites. Dynamic RAM Read-only memory Flash memory Static RAM QUESTION 15 ________________ specifications include provisions for timers, signals, shared memory, scheduling, and mutexes MIPS MS-DOS POSIX real-time Linux QUESTION 16 The embedded systems programmer typically writes programs exclusively in ________________ and does not have the luxury of after-the-fact performance tuning. a high-level language machine language binary code assembly language

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QUESTION 1. ______________ allow(s) a computer to invoke procedures that use resources on another computer

Remote procedure calls (RPCs)

QUESTION 2 The simplest example of a neural net is the:

supervised learning

QUESTION 3 The first company in the world to manufacture and sell what it identifies as a quantum computer is:

D-Wave Computers

QUESTION 4 A ______________ is a collection of distributed workstations that work in parallel only while the nodes are not being used as regular workstations.

A network of nodes

QUESTION 5 SIMD stands for

single instruction stream, multiple data streams

QUESTION 6 ____________ delays the binding process until the process is actually running.

Run-time binding

QUESTION 7. __________________ schedules the processor giving preference to the job with the shortest execution time

Shortest job first scheduling

QUESTION 8 The _____________ is the core of the operating system.

kernel

QUESTION 9 ___________ share a single centralized memory

Tightly coupled multiprocessors

QUESTION 10 ___________ allows multiple processes to run concurrently

Multitasking

QUESTION 11 _____________ gives the programmer direct access to the underlying machine architecture.

Assembly language

QUESTION 12 _____________ is a classification for software that provides services above the operating system layer and below the application program layer

Middleware

QUESTION 13 A user interface is a program, or small set of programs, that constitutes the _____________.

display manager

QUESTION 14 ________________ contains constants and literals used by the embedded program and is stored here to protect them from accidental overwrites.

Read-only memory

QUESTION 15 ________________ specifications include provisions for timers, signals, shared memory, scheduling, and mutexes

POSIX

QUESTION 16 The embedded systems programmer typically writes programs exclusively in ________________ and does not have the luxury of after-the-fact performance tuning.

Assembly language