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Course contents

  • Architecture Metrics Reference
  • Workload Taxonomy for Architects
  • Architecture Glossary
  • Computer Architecture Cheatsheet
  • Pipeline Fundamentals14
  • Memory Hierarchy15
  • NoC and Interconnect Architecture6
  • Coherency and Memory Ordering9
  • Performance Analysis9
  • Accelerator Architectures6
  • SoC Architecture Tradeoffs9
  • Architecture Interview Prep14
    • Interview Method and Worked Scenarios
    • Architecture Interview Q&A Bank
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  2. Computer Architecture
  3. Architecture Interview Prep

Computer Architecture · All levels

Architecture Interview Prep

Whiteboard method, timed architecture scenarios, and a senior Q&A bank for interviews.

  • 2topics
  • 14lessons

This part turns architecture analysis into whiteboard answers. Every scenario starts from a metric, names the mechanism, and proposes the cheapest experiment first.

Learning path through the interview-prep topics.
Suggested order. Method and scenarios first, then the Q&A bank.

The two topics

Topic

Lessons

Description

Time

Interview Method and Worked Scenarios

6

Whiteboard method plus four worked architecture scenarios with numbers and validation.

50 min

Architecture Interview Q&A Bank

8

One deduplicated bank of senior architecture interview questions with full answers and worked numbers.

65 min

Tip

Open every answer with the failing metric and the cheapest experiment that could disprove your hypothesis.

Check yourself Workload IPC drops 15% after a cache change. What are the first three checks?

MPKI by level, L2 bandwidth use, and the frontend, backend, and memory stall breakdown, before blaming cache size. The Interview Method and Worked Scenarios topic works this pattern with numbers.

Interview

Typical interview tasks from this part: narrate a cache-MPKI debug from PMU counters, trade MESI against MOESI in traffic terms, and close with PPA tradeoffs and a validation plan.

Related topics

  • Up: Computer Architecture course hub

  • Previous: SoC Architecture Tradeoffs

  • See also: CPU Design course

  • See also: SoC Integration course

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See also

  • Architecture Metrics Reference
  • Workload Taxonomy for Architects
  • Architecture Glossary