Practice Fully Associative Cache Placement (6.2.3) - Associative and Multi-level Caches

Practise this section

9 questions

Flashcard drill
2 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
Exercise
6 questions · about 4 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the exercise
Quiz
3 questions · about 2 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the quiz

6 sample questions

Question 1.
What is a fully associative cache?
Show hintHide hint
Think about flexibility.
Question 2.
How does a direct mapped cache operate?
Show hintHide hint
Check the strictness of mapping.
3Question 3.
What type of cache allows a block to be placed in any line?
- Direct mapped
- Set associative
- Fully associative
Show hintHide hint
Remember 'flexibility' in placement.
4Question 4.
In a direct mapped cache, does a cache miss occur if the required data is not present?
- True
- False
Show hintHide hint
Think about where data can be stored.
Question 5.
A fully associative cache has 4 lines. If blocks 1, 2, and 3 are accessed in order, describe the cache state after each block access assuming they result in misses and are stored in order.
Show hintHide hint
Consider how each block fills the cache.
Question 6.
Discuss the pros and cons of implementing a fully associative cache with an LRU replacement policy versus a direct mapped cache.
Show hintHide hint
Think about performance and efficiency.

5 more questions in this section. Enroll free to practise them all.