6. The clock period A. is equal to the clock rate B. is the length of a single cycle C. is the total program exeuction time D. varies based on the instruction executed

7. Processor execution time can be reduced by which of the following? A. Reducing the number of clock cycles B. Increasing the clock rate C. Both D. None

8. The CPI for an instruction class is typically different than the CPI of other classes in a given architecture. TRUE/FALSE

9. Performance does not depend on which of the following? A. Algorithm B. Compiler C. Instruction Set D. All of the above impact performance

10. MIPS (Millions of instructions per second) is an accurate measure of CPU execution time. TRUE/FALSE