COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & ARCHITECTURE

This page collects 202 computer organization & architecture questions taken from 9 BEU semester 4 papers, 2014 to 2025 — about 22 questions in a typical paper. They are sorted into the 4 modules of the syllabus, so you can revise a topic across every year at once instead of working through papers one at a time. 202 of them have a worked solution.

What these papers actually ask

Module 2: x86 Architecture, CPU Control, I/O, Memory System Design is the heaviest module in this archive at 46% of every question recorded, and it has come up in all 9 papers. Together with Module 4: Memory Organization, the two account for 69% of the archive.

3 modules have appeared in all 9 papers — Module 2: x86 Architecture, CPU Control, I/O, Memory System Design, Module 4: Memory Organization, Module 3: Pipelining. A module that turns up every year is a safer use of revision time than one with the same question count concentrated in a single paper.

How the marks are split

Questions in this archive carry 4 different mark values. The most common is the 2-mark question, with 86 of them recorded — worth knowing before you decide how much depth to practise at.