McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Computer Science Engineering (CSE) , Programming Languages .
Chapters
| 1. |
An n -body solver is a ___________ that finds 4 the solution to an n-body problem by simulating the behaviour of the particles |
| A. | Program |
| B. | Particle |
| C. | Programmer |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» A. Program | |
| 2. |
The set of NP-complete problems is often denoted by ____________ |
| A. | NP-C |
| B. | NP-C or NPC |
| C. | NPC |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. NP-C or NPC | |
| 3. |
Pthreads has a nonblocking version of pthreads_mutex_lock called __________ |
| A. | pthread_mutex_lock |
| B. | pthread_mutex_trylock |
| C. | pthread_mutex_acquirelock |
| D. | pthread_mutex_releaselock |
| Answer» B. pthread_mutex_trylock | |
| 4. |
What are the algorithms for identifying which subtrees we assign to the processes or threads __________ |
| A. | breadth-first search |
| B. | depth-first search |
| C. | depth-first search breadth-first search |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. depth-first search breadth-first search | |
| 5. |
What are the scoping clauses in OpenMP _________ |
| A. | Shared Variables & Private Variables |
| B. | Shared Variables |
| C. | Private Variables |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Shared Variables & Private Variables | |
| 6. |
The function My_avail_tour count can simply return the ________ |
| A. | Size of the process’ stack |
| B. | Sub tree rooted at the partial tour |
| C. | Cut-off length |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. Size of the process’ stack | |
| 7. |
MPI provides a function ________, for packing data into a buffer of contiguous memory. |
| A. | MPI_Pack |
| B. | MPI_UnPack |
| C. | MPI_Pack Count |
| D. | MPI_Packed |
| Answer» A. MPI_Pack | |
| 8. |
Two MPI_Irecv calls are made specifying different buffers and tags, but the same sender and request location. How can one determine that the buffer specified in the first call has valid data? |
| A. | Call MPI_Probe |
| B. | Call MPI_Testany with the same request listed twice |
| C. | Call MPI_Wait twice with the same request |
| D. | Look at the data in the buffer and try to determine whether it is |
| Answer» C. Call MPI_Wait twice with the same request | |
| 9. |
Which of the following statements is not true? |
| A. | MPI_lsend and MPI_Irecv are non-blocking message passing routines of MPI |
| B. | MPI_lssend and MPI_Ibsend are non-blocking message passing routines of MPI |
| C. | MPI_Send and MPI_Recv are non-blocking message passing routines of MPI |
| D. | MPI_Ssend and MPI_Bsend are blocking message passing routines of MPI |
| Answer» A. MPI_lsend and MPI_Irecv are non-blocking message passing routines of MPI | |
| 10. |
Which of the following is not valid with reference to Message Passing Interface (MPI)? |
| A. | MPI can run on any hardware platform |
| B. | The programming model is a distributed memory model |
| C. | All parallelism is implicit |
| D. | MPI - Comm - Size returns the total number of MPI processes in specified communication |
| Answer» C. All parallelism is implicit | |
| 11. |
An _____________ is a program that finds the solution to an n-body problem by simulating the behavior of the particles. |
| A. | Two N-Body Solvers |
| B. | n-body solver |
| C. | n-body problem |
| D. | Newton‘s second law |
| Answer» B. n-body solver | |
| 12. |
For the reduced n-body solver, a ________________ will best distribute the workload in the computation of the forces. |
| A. | cyclic distribution |
| B. | velocity of each particle |
| C. | universal gravitation |
| D. | gravitational constant |
| Answer» A. cyclic distribution | |
| 13. |
Parallelizing the two n-body solvers using _______________ is very similar to parallelizing them using OpenMP. |
| A. | thread‘s rank |
| B. | function Loopschedule |
| C. | Pthreads |
| D. | loop variable |
| Answer» C. Pthreads | |
| 14. |
The run-times of the serial solvers differed from the single-process MPI solvers by ______________. |
| A. | More than 1% |
| B. | less than 1% |
| C. | Equal to 1% |
| D. | Greater than 1% |
| Answer» B. less than 1% | |
| 15. |
Each node of the tree has an_________________ , that is, the cost of the partial tour. |
| A. | Euler‘s method |
| B. | associated cost |
| C. | three-dimensional problems |
| D. | fast function |
| Answer» A. Euler‘s method | |
| 16. |
Using _____________ we can systematically visit each node of the tree that could possibly lead to a least-cost solution. |
| A. | depth-first search |
| B. | Foster‘s methodology |
| C. | reduced algorithm |
| D. | breadth first search |
| Answer» A. depth-first search | |
| 17. |
The newly created stack into our private stack, set the newstack variable to_____________. |
| A. | Infinite |
| B. | Zero |
| C. | NULL |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. NULL | |
| 18. |
The ____________________ is a pointer to a block of memory allocated by the user program and buffersize is its size in bytes. |
| A. | tour data |
| B. | node tasks |
| C. | actual computation |
| D. | buffer argument |
| Answer» B. node tasks | |
| 19. |
A _____________ function is called by Fulfillrequest. |
| A. | descendants |
| B. | Splitstack |
| C. | dynamic mapping scheme |
| D. | ancestors |
| Answer» B. Splitstack | |
| 20. |
The cost of stack splitting in the MPI implementation is quite high; in addition to the cost of the communication, the packing and unpacking is very ________________. |
| A. | global least cost |
| B. | time- consuming |
| C. | expensive tours |
| D. | shared stack |
| Answer» B. time- consuming | |
| 21. |
_____________ begins by checking on the number of tours that the process has in its stack. |
| A. | Terminated |
| B. | Send rejects |
| C. | Receive rejects |
| D. | Empty |
| Answer» A. Terminated | |
| 22. |
The ____________ is the distributed-memory version of the OpenMP busywait loop. |
| A. | For loop |
| B. | while(1) loop |
| C. | Do while loop |
| D. | Empty |
| Answer» B. while(1) loop | |
| 23. |
______________ sent to false and continue in the loop. |
| A. | work_request |
| B. | My_avail_tour_count |
| C. | Fulfill_request |
| D. | Split_stack packs |
| Answer» A. work_request | |
| 24. |
________________ takes the data in data to be packed and packs it into contig_buf. |
| A. | MPI Unpack |
| B. | MPI_Pack |
| C. | MPI_Datatype |
| D. | MPI_Comm |
| Answer» B. MPI_Pack | |
| 25. |
The _______________ function when executed by a process other than 0 sends its energy to process 0. |
| A. | Out of work |
| B. | No_work_left |
| C. | zero-length message |
| D. | request for work |
| Answer» A. Out of work | |
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