Measure+of+Performance+Questions+(Higher)

1. Explain what is meant by the term clock speed.

2. Why are clock speeds not an effective method of measuring performance between processors manufactured by different companies.

3. When is clock speed a good measurement of performance?

4. Explain why MIPS is not a good measurement of performance?

5. What could you do to improve MIPS as a measurement tool?

6. Why is FLOPS a good measurement of performance?

7. What is a Benchmark?

8. What applications would you use for application based tests?