A student in a past offering of this course interviewed with a major archecture design company and was asked the following questions. These are a sample of things you might see if you were to interview for any company that deals with computer archiecture design:

• Cisc vs Risc
• What is a pipeline and what are its advantages
• What is the ideal throughput of a pipeline
• How can you bring the throughput of a pipeline closer to the ideal
• How do branch predictors work
• Difference between an exception and an interrupt
• Describe virtual memory and its advantages
• What is and how does a TLB work