Question $6$

Which of the following best describes the concept of a pipeline stall?

A delay in the execution of an instruction due to a resource conflict

A delay in the execution of an instruction due to a branch misprediction

A delay in the execution of an instruction due to a cache miss

A delay in the execution of an instruction due to a pipeline bubble

Question $7$

Which of the following addressing modes uses a memory address as the operand?

Direct addressing mode

Indirect addressing mode

Immediate addressing mode

Indexed addressing mode

Question $8$

Which of the following is an advantage of RISC architectures over CISC architectures?

More efficient use of memory

More efficient use of registers

More powerful instruction set

More compact code size