Review for final exam
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Exam rules
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* Open book, open note
* BRING YOUR COPY OF APPENDIX A!!!
* Other textbooks are OK if you think they're useful
* Calculators, but not used in programmable mode
  (any programs related to this class must be deleted)
* Bring a pencil
* No communication devices (cell phones, pagers, ...)

Exam advice
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* Problems will have range of difficulty; work on the easier ones
  first.
* Since this is an open book exam, the problems will not be just
  rote regurgitation
* I liked the "software-oriented" problems on exam #2, and I'll
  probably put some more of those on the final.
* I hope that time constraints will be less severe than on exam #2,
  but you should not plan on having extensive time for
  studying _during_ the exam.
* If you don't understand previous homework or exam problems, that
  would be a good place to start your exam preparation.

What's on the exam
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* Everything covered on exam #1
* Everything covered on exam #2
    - including virtual memory
    - including very simple out-of-order/multiple issue
      (know how instruction dependencies work)
* A simple multiprocessor/parallelism problem

Example exam
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* I distributed the final exam from two years ago (Spring 2005)
  along with solutions.  I quickly went through the problems,
  and solved the parallelism problem in detail