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Kent Institute Australia Pty. Ltd. Assessment Brief ABN 49 003 577 302 CRICOS Code: 00161E RTO Code: 90458 Version 2: 11th October, 2019 Page 1 of 3 TEQSA Provider Number: PRV12051 ASSESSMENT BRIEF COURSE: Bachelor of Information Technology Unit Code: CARC103 Unit Title: Computer Architecture Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 – Content Analysis (Reflective Journal) Length/Duration: 3,000 words maximum Unit Learning Outcomes addressed: Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to: 1. Describe the elements of IT including hardware, software, communications and networks 2. Describe and evaluate concepts and elements of operating systems 3. Describe and illustrate appropriate use of data storage and manipulation 4. Describe and illustrate the use of operating systems in device management, process management, scheduling and dispatching 5. Describe the major issues in enterprise integration platform selection Submission Date: Week 14 Assessment Task: Students are required to analyse the weekly lecture material of weeks 1 to 11 and create concise content analysis summaries of the theoretical concepts contained in the course lecture slides. Total Mark: 50 marks Weighting: 50% of the unit total marks Students are advised that submission of an Assessment Task past the due date without a formally signed approved Assignment Extension Form (Kent Website MyKent Student Link> FORM – Assignment Extension Application Form – Student Login Required) or previously approved application for other extenuating circumstances impacting course of study, incurs a 5% penalty per calendar day, calculated by deduction from the total mark. For example. An Assessment Task marked out of 40 will incur a 2 mark penalty for each calendar day. https://kentinstituteaustralia.sharepoint.com/sites/Policies%26Forms/SitePages/Home.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fsites%2FPolicies%26Forms%2FPolicies%20and%20Forms%2FStudent&FolderCTID=0x012000E6C01ECDB12ACE448B94EB84A9F93758&View=%7B148054E0%2D0936%2D4517%2D8B3E%2DD0CCDC7CD88F%7D Kent Institute Australia Pty. Ltd. Assessment Brief ABN 49 003 577 302 CRICOS Code: 00161E RTO Code: 90458 Version 2: 11th October, 2019 Page 2 of 3 TEQSA Provider Number: PRV12051 More information, please refer to (Kent Website MyKent Student Link> POLICY – Assessment Policy & Procedures – Student Login Required) ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION: Students are required to analyse the weekly lecture material of weeks 1 to 11 and create concise content analysis summaries of the theoretical concepts contained in the course lecture slides. Where the lab content or information contained in technical articles from the Internet or books helps to fully describe the lecture slide content, discussion of such theoretical articles or discussion of the lab material should be included in the content analysis. The document structure is as follows (3000 Words): 1. Title Page 2. Introduction (100 words) 3. Background (100 words) 4. Content analysis (reflective journals) for each week from 1 to 11 (2750 words; 250 words per week): a. Theoretical Discussion i. Important topics covered ii. Definitions b. Interpretations of the contents i. What are the most important/useful/relevant information about the content? c. Outcome i. What have I learned from this? 5. Conclusion (50 words) Your report must include: • At least five references, out of which, three references must be from academic resources. • Harvard Australian referencing for any sources you use. • Refer to the Academic Learning Skills student guide on Referencing. ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION: This assignment should be submitted online in Moodle through Turnitin. The assignment MUST be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. Other formats may not be readable by markers. Please be aware that any assessments submitted in other formats will be considered LATE and will lose marks until it is presented in Word. For assistance please speak to our Academic Learning Skills Coordinators, in Sydney ([email protected]) or in Melbourne ([email protected]). They can help you with understanding the task, draft checking, structure, referencing and other assignment-related matters. MARKING GUIDE (RUBRIC): Marking Criteria Marks Content precisely presented based on references 30 Marks Presentation (Layout, no grammatical errors, reads well, etc.) 10 Marks https://kentinstituteaustralia.sharepoint.com/sites/Policies%26Forms/SitePages/Home.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fsites%2FPolicies%26Forms%2FPolicies%20and%20Forms%2FStudent&FolderCTID=0x012000E6C01ECDB12ACE448B94EB84A9F93758&View=%7B148054E0%2D0936%2D4517%2D8B3E%2DD0CCDC7CD88F%7D Kent Institute Australia Pty. Ltd. Assessment Brief ABN 49 003 577 302 CRICOS Code: 00161E RTO Code: 90458 Version 2: 11th October, 2019 Page 3 of 3 TEQSA Provider Number: PRV12051 Cited references 10 Marks Total marks for content analysis assignment 50 Marks GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS Content for Assessment Task papers should incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion. Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and demonstrate in work being presented for assessment. The content of high quality work presented by a student must be fully referenced within-text citations and a Reference List at the end. Kent strongly recommends you refer to the Academic Learning Support Workshop materials available on the Kent Learning Management System (Moodle). For details please click the link http://moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=3606 and download the file titled “Harvard Referencing Workbook”. This Moodle Site is the location for Workbooks and information that are presented to Kent Students in the ALS Workshops conducted at the beginning of each Trimester. Kent recommends a minimum of FIVE (5) references in work being presented for assessment. Unless otherwise specifically instructed by your Lecturer or as detailed in the Unit Outline for the specific Assessment Task, any paper with less than five (5) references may be deemed not meeting a satisfactory standard and possibly be failed. Content in Assessment tasks that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard Referencing Workbook” will be penalised.
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Reflective Journal
Introduction
I have developed the journal by consolidating notes from the slides of the course. The main aim of this reflective journal is to record my understanding of various concepts of computer architecture. It includes a thorough understanding of every week during the course along with certain concepts that I need to study further for clearer understanding. All the information is connected and chronologically ordered according to the course covered throughout the semester. I have classified the weekly work into topics. On completion of this course, I have a strong grasp on computer as a layered system and
I can explain the basic architecture and functions of computer components.
Background
The course has leveraged each and every concept of computer science relevant to understand computer architecture. It began with basics of automated computing, hardware components and basic system software. Data representation and numbering system is explained in detail. Further topics that are covered include processors, data storage and secondary storage, system integration and performance, input/output, networks, operating systems, virtualization, cloud computing and system administration.
Content Analysis
The introductory chapter explains automated computing, biological computing, mechanical computing, electronic computing and optical computing. Optical computing was interesting as I have an inclination towards this filed. Computation in this computing uses photons produced by diodes for digital computation. The computation speed shall depend upon on the speed of information transfer and its processing speed. I researched about this computing and find an interesting learning that photons basically use wave propagation and interference pattern to provide output. Optical transistor is used in optical computing by making use of materials with non-linear refractive index.
Data Representation
This part discussed the numbering systems, their use in representing data, different method of representing data, representation of nonnumeric data and data structures with their uses. The information helped in understanding how the data is represented in the computer for processing and storage. The state of electrical switches determines the binary digit as zero (off/true) and one (on/false) and all data is represented as binary digits. Boolean logic is used to process simple and complex conditions by combining true/false values. Values are represented through base and radix of numbering system. Different notations used for numbering are binary, hexadecimal and octal. The data types used by CPU include Integer, real, character and Boolean. Data involves compact, accurate and standardized representation.
· Integer- They hold Signed (Positive and negative) values and unsigned (only positive) values with notation formats as excess notation and two’s complement.
· Real- These numbers include whole and decimal numbers using floating point notation which uses fixed position of radix. It has mantissa and exponent. This notation is complex and is prone to truncation errors and underflow errors.
· Character- These are represented with integers through ASCII coding table that maps the characters with integers. It uses 7-bit format which is capable of representing punctuation mark and device control characters along with letters. However, it has a limited range of 95 representable characters through 128 entries. Another advanced character coding table used in computation is Unicode.
· Boolean- ‘True’ and ‘False’ values are required for evaluating and storing comparison and condition instructions.
· Memory Address- It is a sequence of 8-bit memory locations. Addressable memory stores unsigned integer. Segmented memory format was used in old CPUs.
Processor Technology
This part focusses on CPU instructions, processing operations, instruction format, word size, registers. CPU uses instruction cycle and execution cycle to accomplish computation. The CU component reads instruction, increments pointer and stores the instruction in register. Data is stored in registers and memory addresses are copied from memory and loaded into registers. Processing circuitry enables data movement between registers in the execution cycle. Each instruction has an Op code and operands. Instructions are moved via load and store operations and manipulations are done through bitwise operation using NOT, AND, OR and XOR. Other instructions include ADD for addition of bits, SHIFT for shifting bits from left to right, BRANCH for conditional and unconditional branching, HALT for terminating. Complex instructions are executed by combination of simple instructions via RISC and CISC. The execution cycles are fractions of clock rate and measured in GHz. CPU performance related to instructions is measured in MIPS or MFLOPS. Performance of computer or its components is measured as Benchmark. Several Benchmarks are offered by SPEC, TPC and PassMark. ALU uses General purpose registers and CU uses special purpose registers. The basic data transformation is done in words which have fixed number of bytes. CPUs have word size of 64 bits. Word size is crucial in maintaining cost/performance ratio. Therefore, it is important to match the CPU word size with data size. Performance can be enhanced using different techniques such as
· Memory caching.
· Pipelining technique
· Branch Prediction and Speculation execution
· Multiprocessing.
Physical implementation of CPU uses switches and circuits on a microprocessor. Processor fabrication can be done using Moore’s Law or Rock’s Law.
Data Storage Technology
This part provides detailed understanding of primary and secondary storage, their characteristics and different secondary storage devices and their performance. Components for storage include RAM that stores the data as well as performs read/write mechanism and device controller is the interface between system bus and RAM. They have characteristics combinations for primary and secondary storage like
· Speed, a complex characteristic with different metrics like access time and data transfer rate.
· Volatility, a degree to which the storage device can hold data.
· Access Methods like serial, random and parallel access.
· Portability of device and the storage medium
· Cost & Capacity
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