Showing posts with label Computer Organization Objective Type Questions. Show all posts
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Monday, 11 February 2013

Computer Organization multiple choice questions with answers pdf

1.  In Reverse Polish notation, expression A*B+C*D is written as
2.  SIMD represents an organization that ______________.
3.  Floating point representation is used to store
4.  Suppose that a bus has 16 data lines and requires 4 cycles of 250 nsecs each to transfer data. The bandwidth of this bus would be 2 Megabytes/sec. If the cycle time of the bus was reduced to 125 nsecs and the number of cycles required for transfer stayed the same what would the bandwidth of the bus?
5.  Assembly language
6.  In computers, subtraction is generally carried out by
7.  The amount of time required to read a block of data from a disk into memory is composed of seek time, rotational latency, and transfer time. Rotational latency refers to
8.  What characteristic of RAM memory makes it not suitable for permanent storage?
9.  Computers use addressing mode techniques for _____________.
10. The circuit used to store one bit of data is known as______.
11. (2FAOC)16 is equivalent to
12. The average time required to reach a storage location in memory and obtain its contents is called the_____.
13. Which of the following is not a weighted code?
14. The idea of cache memory is based ________.
15. _________ register keeps track of the instructions stored in program stored in memory.
16. The addressing mode used in an instruction of the form ADD X Y, is _____ ?
17. If memory access takes 20 ns with cache and 110 ns with out it, then the ratio ( cache uses a 10 ns memory) is
18. In a memory-mapped I/O system, which of the following will not be there?
19. In a vectored interrupt.
20. Von Neumann architecture is
21. The circuit used to store one bit of data is known as
22. Cache memory acts between
23. Write Through technique is used in which memory for updating the data
24. Generally Dynamic RAM is used as main memory in a computer system as it
25. In signed-magnitude binary division, if the dividend is (11100)2 and divisor is (10011)2 then the result is
26. Virtual memory consists of
27. In a program using subroutine call instruction, it is necessary
28. A Stack-organised Computer uses instruction of
29. If the main memory is of 8K bytes and the cache memory is of 2K words. It uses associative mapping. Then each word of cache memory shall be
30. The memory unit that communicates directly with the CPU is called the____.
31. Logic X-OR operation of (4ACO)H & (B53F)H results
32. When CPU is executing a Program that is part of the Operating System, it is said to be in
33. An n-bit microprocessor has
34. Cache memory works on the principle of
35. The main memory in a Personal Computer (PC) is made of
36. In computers, subtraction is carried out generally by
37. PSW is saved in stack when there is a
38. The multiplicand register & multiplier register of a hardware circuit implementing booth's algorithm have (11101) & (1100). The result shall be
39. The circuit converting binary data in to decimal is
40. A three input NOR gate gives logic high output only when
41. n bits in operation code imply that there are ___________ possible distinct operators
42. _________ register keeps tracks of the instructions stored in program stored in memory.
43. Memory unit accessed by content is called
44. ‘Aging registers’ are
45. The instruction ‘ORG O’ is a
46. Translation from symbolic program into Binary is done in
47. A floating point number that has a O in the MSB of mantissa is said to have
48. The BSA instruction is
49. The average time required to reach a storage location in memory and obtain its contents is called
50. Logic gates with a set of input and outputs is arrangement of
51. MIMD stands for
52. A k-bit field can specify any one of
53. The time interval between adjacent bits is called the
54. A group of bits that tell the computer to perform a specific operation is known as
55. The load instruction is mostly used to designate a transfer from memory to a processor register known as
56. The communication between the components in a microcomputer takes place via the address and
57. An instruction pipeline can be implemented by means of
58. Data input command is just the opposite of a _____.
59. A microprogram sequencer _____.
60. A binary digit is called a ____?
61. A flip-flop is a binary cell capable of storing information of____.
62. The operation executed on data stored in registers is called____.
63. MRI indicates ____.
64. Self-contained sequence of instructions that performs a given computational task is called
65. Microinstructions are stored in control memory groups, with each group specifying a
66. An interface that provides a method for transferring binary information between internal storage and external devices is called
67. Status bit is also called
68. An address in main memory is called
69. If the value V(x) of the target operand is contained in the address field itself, the addressing mode is
70. can be represented in a signed magnitude format and in a 1’s complement format as
71. The instructions which copy information from one location to another either in the processor’s internal register set or in the external main memory are called
72. A device/circuit that goes through a predefined sequence of states upon the application of input pulses is called
73. The performance of cache memory is frequently measured in terms of a quantity called
74. The information available in a state table may be represented graphically in a
75. Content of the program counter is added to the address part of the instruction in order to obtain the effective address is called.
76. An interface that provides I/O transfer of data directly to and form the memory unit and peripheral is termed as
77. The 2s compliment form (Use 6 bit word) of the number 1010 is
78. A register capable of shifting its binary information either to the right or the left is called a
79. What is the content of Stack Pointer (SP)?
80. Which of the following interrupt is non maskable
81. Which of the following is a main memory
82. Which of the following are not a machine instructions
83. In Assembly language programming, minimum number of operands required for an instruction is/are
84. The maximum addressing capacity of a micro processor which uses 16 bit database & 32 bit address base is