Which of the following improves single-threaded performance significantly? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

Which of the following improves single-threaded performance significantly?
A. Higher clock speeds and better IPC
B. More USB ports
C. Larger secondary storage
D. More slow cores
Answer: Option A
Solution (By JKSSB Mock Tests)
Key for many applications not parallelized.

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Question #1
Which component is responsible for instruction sequencing?
A. ALU
B. Program Counter in CU
C. I/O ports
D. Cache

Correct Answer: Option B


Explanation:
Program Counter manages the sequence of instruction fetch.

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Question #2
Which is a common mobile CPU series?
A. Intel Core i9
B. EPYC
C. Qualcomm Snapdragon
D. AMD Threadripper

Correct Answer: Option C


Explanation:
ARM-based for smartphones.

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Question #3
The decode stage may involve:
A. Complex decoding for variable length instructions
B. Simple fixed length only
C. No decoding
D. ALU computation

Correct Answer: Option A


Explanation:
In x86 especially.

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