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Computer Architecture | Set 1

1. The               format is usually used to store data.

Correct : A. bcd

2. The 8-bit encoding format used to store data in a computer is

Correct : B. ebcdic

3. A source program is usually in

Correct : C. high-level language

4. Which memory device is generally made of semiconductors?

Correct : A. ram

5. The small extremely fast, RAM’s are called as

Correct : A. cache

6. The ALU makes use of                 to store the intermediate results.

Correct : A. accumulators

7. The control unit controls other units by generating

Correct : B. timing signals

8. are numbers and encoded characters, generally used as operands.

Correct : B. data

9. The Input devices can send information to the processor.

Correct : A. when the sin status flag is set

10. bus structure is usually used to connect I/O devices.

Correct : A. single bus

11. The I/O interface required to connect the I/O device to the bus consists of

Correct : C. address decoder, registers and control circuits

12. To reduce the memory access time we generally make use of

Correct : D. cache’s

13. is generally used to increase the apparent size of physical memory.

Correct : B. virtual memory

14. MFC stands for

Correct : B. memory function complete

15. The time delay between two successive initiations of memory operation

Correct : C. memory cycle time

16. The decoded instruction is stored in

Correct : A. ir

17. Which registers can interact with the secondary storage?

Correct : A. mar

18. During the execution of a program which gets initialized first?

Correct : C. pc

19. Which of the register/s of the processor is/are connected to Memory Bus?

Correct : B. mar

20. ISP stands for

Correct : A. instruction set processor

21. The internal components of the processor are connected by

Correct : B. processor bus

22. is used to choose between incrementing the PC or performing ALU operations.

Correct : B. multiplexer

23. The registers, ALU and the interconnection between them are collectively called as

Correct : D. data path

24. is used to store data in registers.

Correct : A. d flip flop

25. The main virtue for using single Bus structure is

Correct : C. cost effective connectivity and ease of attaching peripheral devices

26. are used to overcome the difference in data transfer speeds of various devices.

Correct : D. buffer registers

27. To extend the connectivity of the processor bus we use

Correct : A. pci bus

28. IBM developed a bus standard for their line of computers ‘PC AT’ called

Correct : C. isa

29. The bus used to connect the monitor to the CPU is

Correct : B. scsi bus

30. ANSI stands for

Correct : A. american national standards institute

31. register Connected to the Processor bus is a single-way transfer capable.

Correct : D. z

32. In multiple Bus organisation, the registers are collectively placed and referred as

Correct : B. register file

33. The main advantage of multiple bus organisation over a single bus is

Correct : A. reduction in the number of cycles for execution

34. The ISA standard Buses are used to connect

Correct : C. harddisk and processor

35. During the execution of the instructions, a copy of the instructions is placed in the

Correct : D. cache

36. Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B can execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster?

Correct : A. a

37. A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called

Correct : B. pipe-lining

38. The clock rate of the processor can be improved by

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

39. An optimizing Compiler does

Correct : B. takes advantage of the type of processor and reduces its process time

40. SPEC stands for

Correct : C. system performance evaluation corporation

41. As of 2000, the reference system to find the performance of a system is

Correct : A. ultra sparc 10

42. If a processor clock is rated as 1250 million cycles per second, then its clock period is

Correct : D. 8 * 10-10 sec

43. If the instruction, Add R1, R2, R3 is executed in a system that is pipe-lined, then the value of S is (Where S is a term of the Basic performance equation)?

Correct : C. ~1

44. CISC stands for

Correct : C. complex instruction set computer

45. In the case of, Zero-address instruction method the operands are stored in

Correct : C. push down stack

46. As of 2000, the reference system to find the SPEC rating are built with             Processor.

Correct : B. ultra sparc -iii 300mhz

47. The instruction, Add #45,R1 does

Correct : B. adds 45 to the value of r1 and stores it in r1

48. The addressing mode which makes use of in-direction pointers is

Correct : A. indirect addressing mode

49. In the following indexed addressing mode instruction, MOV 5(R1), LOC the effective address is

Correct : D. ea = 5+[r1]

50. The addressing mode/s, which uses the PC instead of a general purpose register is

Correct : B. relative

51. The addressing mode, where you directly specify the operand value is

Correct : A. immediate

52. addressing mode is most suitable to change the normal sequence of execution of instructions.

Correct : A. relative

53. Which method/s of representation of numbers occupies a large amount of memory than others?

Correct : A. sign-magnitude

54. Which method of representation has two representations for ‘0’?

Correct : A. sign-magnitude

55. When we perform subtraction on -7 and 1 the answer in 2’s complement form is

Correct : D. 1000

56. The processor keeps track of the results of its operations using flags called

Correct : A. conditional code flags

57. The register used to store the flags is called as

Correct : B. status register

58. In some pipelined systems, a different instruction is used to add to numbers which can affect the flags upon

Correct : D. xor gate

59. The most efficient method followed by computers to multiply two unsigned numbers is

Correct : B. bit pair recording of multipliers

60. For the addition of large integers, most of the systems make use of

Correct : C. carry look-ahead adders

61. In a normal n-bit adder, to find out if an overflow as occurred we make use of

Correct : C. shift register

62. The smallest entity of memory is called

Correct : A. cell

63. The collection of the above mentioned entities where data is stored is called

Correct : C. word

64. If a system is 64 bit machine, then the length of each word will be

Correct : B. 8 bytes

65. The type of memory assignment used in Intel processors is

Correct : A. little endian

66. When using the Big Endian assignment to store a number, the sign bit of the number is stored in

Correct : A. the higher order byte of the word

67. To get the physical address from the logical address generated by CPU we use

Correct : B. mmu

68. method is used to map logical addresses of variable length onto physical memory.

Correct : C. segmentation

69. During the transfer of data between the processor and memory we use

Correct : D. registers

70. Physical memory is divided into sets of finite size called as

Correct : A. frames

71. Add #%01011101,R1 , when this instruction is executed then

Correct : A. the binary addition between the operands takes place

72. If we want to perform memory or arithmetic operations on data in Hexa- decimal mode then we use                      symbol before the operand.

Correct : C. $

73. When generating physical addresses from a logical address the offset is stored in

Correct : B. relocation register

74. The technique used to store programs larger than the memory is

Correct : A. overlays

75. The unit which acts as an intermediate agent between memory and backing store to reduce process time is

Correct : D. cache

76. Does the Load instruction do the following operation/s?

Correct : B. loads the contents of a location onto the accumulators

77. Complete the following analogy:- Registers are to RAM’s as Cache’s are to

Correct : D. tlb

78. The BOOT sector files of the system are stored in

Correct : B. rom

79. The transfer of large chunks of data with the involvement of the processor is done by

Correct : A. dma controller

80. Which of the following techniques used to effectively utilize main memory?

Correct : C. dynamic loading

81. RTN stands for

Correct : A. register transfer notation

82. The instruction, Add Loc,R1 in RTN is

Correct : D. r1<-[loc]+[r1]

83. Can you perform an addition on three operands simultaneously in ALN using Add instruction?

Correct : C. not permitted

84. The instruction, Add R1,R2,R3 in RTN is

Correct : D. r3<-[r1]+[r2]

85. In a system, which has 32 registers the register id is                       long.

Correct : C. 5 bits

86. While using the iterative construct (Branching) in execution                              instruction is used to check the condition.

Correct : B. branch

87. The condition flag Z is set to 1 to indicate

Correct : C. the result is zero

88. converts the programs written in assembly language into machine instructions.

Correct : C. assembler

89. The instructions like MOV or ADD are called as

Correct : A. op-code

90. The assembler directive EQU, when used in the instruction: Sum EQU 200 does

Correct : B. replaces every occurrence of sum with 200

91. The directive used to perform initialization before the execution of the code is

Correct : C. dataword

92. directive is used to specify and assign the memory required for the block of code.

Correct : D. reserve

93. directive specifies the end of execution of a program.

Correct : B. return

94. The last statement of the source program should be

Correct : D. end

95. The assembler stores all the names and their corresponding values in

Correct : B. symbol table

96. The assembler stores the object code in

Correct : D. magnetic disk

97. The utility program used to bring the object code into memory for execution is

Correct : A. loader

98. To overcome the problems of the assembler in dealing with branching code we use

Correct : D. two-pass assembler

99. The return address of the Sub-routine is pointed to by

Correct : B. pc

100. The location to return to, from the subroutine is stored in

Correct : D. link registers