Question 1

Which of the following is this statement? An inclusive and sustainable University recognized for its global and academic excellence by 2030.

Accepted Answer

BPSU Vision

Answer

BPSU Mission

Answer

Course Outcomes

Answer

BPSU Quality Policies

Question 2

Which of the following is this statement? To develop innovative leaders and empowered communities by delivering transformative instruction, research, extension and production through Change Drivers and responsive policies.

Accepted Answer

BPSU Mission

Answer

Course Outcomes

Answer

BPSU Quality Policies

Answer

BPSU Vision

Question 3

This is a discrete set of instructions is used to break down a problem, instructions are carried out consecutively and in order

Accepted Answer

Serial Computing

Answer

Parallel Computing

Answer

Seriall Computing

Answer

Paralel Computing

Question 4

A type of computation known as parallel computing involves running several calculations or processes concurrently

Accepted Answer

Parallel Computing

Answer

Serial Computing

Answer

Paralel Computing

Answer

Seriall Computing

Question 5

Which type of computing is represented by this figure?

Accepted Answer

Serial Computing

Answer

Seriall Computing

Answer

Paralel Computing

Answer

Parallel Computing

Question 6

Which type of computing is represented by this figure?

Accepted Answer

Parallel Computing

Answer

Paralel Computing

Answer

Serial Computing

Answer

Seriall Computing

Question 7

Which of the ff are true for a logical problem?

Question 8

Which of the ff 'are' true for a computing resource?

Question 9

Which is the vendor/company with the highest share in parallel computer sales?

Accepted Answer

HP

Answer

Lenovo

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Dell

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IBM

Question 10

In principle which of the ff 'are' the effect of adding more resources to a project?

Accepted Answer

It uses too much energy

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It causes sloppy output

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It should result in saving costs

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It should speed up completion of a project

Question 11

10 raised to the 18th power is eual to

Accepted Answer

exaflop

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gigaflop

Answer

petaflop

Answer

teraflop

Question 12

Exaflop is equal to

Accepted Answer

10^18

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10^9

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10^12

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10^16

Question 13

From a hardware perspective, most standalone computer nowadays are considered this since it has multiple processors

Accepted Answer

parallel

Answer

serial

Answer

seriall

Answer

paralel

Question 14

Which of the ff are what a stored-program computer store?

Question 15

Which of the ff are parts of a computer? [as stated in the lesson]

Question 16

Which does this figure pertain to?

Accepted Answer

Von Neumann Architechture

Answer

Classical Flynn's Taxonomy

Answer

Clasical Flyn's Taxonomy

Answer

Von Neuman Architechture

Question 17

Which does this figure pertain to?

Accepted Answer

Classical Flynn's Taxonomy

Answer

Von Neumann Architechture

Answer

Von Neuman Architechture

Answer

Clasical Flyn's Taxonomy

Question 18

Which Flynn's Classification has continuity of action and is a serial computer?

Accepted Answer

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Single Data

Question 19

Which Flynn's Classification has UNIVAC 1 and IBM 360 as samples and is a serial computer?

Accepted Answer

Single Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data

Question 20

Which Flynn's Classification has several cryptographic algorithms trying to break a single one coded message and is a parallel computer?

Accepted Answer

Multiple Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Single Data

Question 21

Which Flynn's Classification has networked parallel computer clusters and "grids"?

Accepted Answer

Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Multiple Instruction, Single Data

Answer

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

Question 22

Which is synonymous to Supercomputing?

Accepted Answer

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Answer

Granularity

Answer

Pipelining

Answer

symmetric multi-processor (SMP)

Question 23

A method of parallel computing that divides a task into steps carried out by various processor units, with inputs flowing through much like an assembly line.

Accepted Answer

Pipelining

Answer

symmetric multi-processor (SMP)

Answer

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Answer

Granularity

Question 24

Which of the ff are types of granularity?

Question 25

Which of the ff are types of Noticed Speedup?

Question 26

Type of scaling that happens when we add cores/ processors but the problem size remains the same, there's communication between the core so it is easier to deal with a problem

Accepted Answer

strong scaling

Answer

weak scaling

Answer

indifferent scaling

Answer

different scaling

Question 27

Type of scaling that as more processors are added, the problem size per CPU remains constant, there is no communication between the cores and they individually take on the problem themselves

Accepted Answer

weak scaling

Answer

strong scaling

Answer

indifferent scaling

Answer

different scaling

Question 28

Which does this figure pertain to?

Accepted Answer

Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Non-Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Hybrid Distributed-Shared memory

Answer

Distributed memory

Question 29

This is connecting two or more SMPs

Accepted Answer

Non-Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Distributed memory

Answer

Hybrid Distributed-Shared memory

Answer

Uniform Memory Access

Question 30

This is where systems must be connected via a communication network.

Accepted Answer

Distributed memory

Answer

Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Non-Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Hybrid Distributed-Shared memory

Question 31

A shared memory machine or a graphics processing unit (GPU) 
can be the shared memory component, which is also  used by the 
biggest and fastest computers in use today

Accepted Answer

Hybrid Distributed-Shared memory

Answer

Uniform Memory Access

Answer

Distributed memory

Answer

Non-Uniform Memory Access

Question 32

Which of the ff are true regarding the KSR ALLCACHE approach?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Answer

KSR stands for Kendall Square Research

Answer

That it is also known as virtual shared memory

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That it is under the Shared memory model on a Distributed memory machine

Question 33

Which does this image pertain to?

Question 34

Which of the ff are true regarding the MPI?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Answer

That it stands for Message Passing Interface

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That the ability to send and receive 
messages using MPI, as is commonly done over a network

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That it has direct access to global address space spread 
across all machines

Question 35

Which does this image pertain to?

Question 36

These are used to control access to the shared memory, resolve contentions and 
to prevent race conditions and deadlocks.

Question 37

This is also known as the simplest parallel programming mode

Accepted Answer

Shared Memory Model (without threads)

Answer

Distributed Memory / Message Passing Model:

Answer

Threads Model

Answer

Data Parallel Model

Question 38

This model has a single "heavy 
weight" process can have multiple "light weight", concurrent 
execution paths.

Accepted Answer

Threads Model

Answer

Data Parallel Model

Answer

Shared Memory Model (without threads)

Answer

Distributed Memory / Message Passing Model:

Question 39

This model is where tasks exchange data through communications by sending and 
receiving messages

Accepted Answer

Distributed Memory / Message Passing Model:

Answer

Data Parallel Model

Answer

Threads Model

Answer

Shared Memory Model (without threads)

Question 40

PGAS is under which model

Accepted Answer

Data Parallel Model

Answer

Shared Memory Model (without threads)

Answer

Threads Model

Answer

Distributed Memory / Message Passing Model:

Question 41

This model focuses on performing operations on a data set. The data set is typically organized into a common structure, such as an array or cube

Accepted Answer

Data Parallel Model

Answer

Shared Memory Model (without threads)

Answer

Threads Model

Answer

Distributed Memory / Message Passing Model:

Question 42

The data set is typically organized into a common structure such as which of the ff

Accepted Answer

array/ cube

Answer

list

Answer

process

Answer

partitions

Question 43

This is  used to control access to the shared memory, resolve contentions and to prevent race conditions and deadlocks

Accepted Answer

locks/ semaphores

Answer

list

Answer

process

Answer

partitions

Question 44

What is the official course code of CS Elective 2/ Parallel & Distributed Computing (Oracle Machine Learning)?

Accepted Answer

CSEC0223

Question 45

What is missing in the official course title for CSEC0223? CS Elective 2/ Parallel & --- Computing (Oracle Machine Learning)

Accepted Answer

DISTRIBUTED

Question 46

What do we call standalone computers that are joined by a network? Answer is singular form( without S)

Accepted Answer

NODE

Question 47

Standalone computers should be connected to this to be considered as a node

Accepted Answer

NETWORK

Question 48

A use of parallel computing that is used in weather prediction and also for aerodynamics of cars

Accepted Answer

SIMULATION

Question 49

Where the instructions run through after being divided from the problem?

Accepted Answer

PROCESSOR

Question 50

What is divided into instructions?

Accepted Answer

PROBLEM

Question 51

Both program instructions and data are kept in read/write ----

Accepted Answer

RAM

Question 52

ALU stands for ---- Logic Unit

Accepted Answer

ARITHMETIC

Question 53

This term means you have a secret message and you try to decode it or know what the meaning of the message is

Accepted Answer

DECRYPTION

Question 54

Multi-core are also known as what term?

Accepted Answer

SOCKETS

Question 55

This is often a program or a sequence of instructions that resembles a program that is run by a processor

Accepted Answer

TASK

Question 56

Year that John von Neumann published the initial papers outlining the basic specifications for an electronic computer

Accepted Answer

1945

Question 57

Year the start of usage of Flynn's Taxonomy

Accepted Answer

1966

Question 58

SMP stands for ---- multi-processor

Accepted Answer

symmetric

Question 59

John von Neumann is a British mathematician who the Von Neumann Architecture was based on

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 60

A "stored-program computer" also refers to a computer that stores both info and program instructions in electronic memory

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 61

To carry out the preprogrammed task, the control unit retrieves instructions and data from memory, decodes the instructions, and then successively coordinates actions.

Accepted Answer

true

Answer

false

Question 62

The actual exchange of data is referred to as Pipelining

Accepted Answer

false

Answer

true

Question 63

What does R in KSR ALLCACHE approach stand for?

Accepted Answer

RESEARCH

Question 64

This is used to control access to the shared memory, resolve contentions and to prevent race conditions and deadlocks

Accepted Answer

SEMAPHORES

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