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1. Which of these is NOT involved in the case of a memory write operation?
a. Databus b. MDR c. MAR d. PC
2. Which of these is required when we want to establish the communication
links between a CPU and its peripherals?
a. Memory data register b. Memory address register c. Instruction register
d. Index register
3. Which of these memories would have the lowest access time in a system:
a. Main Memory b. Magnetic Disk c. Registers d. Cache
4. The computer-assisted method that helps in the recording and analysis of a
hypothetical or an existing system is known as:
a. Data processing b. Data capture c. Data flow d. Data transmission
5. Which of these computer languages do we use in artificial intelligence?
a. PROLOG b. FORTRAN c. COBOL d. C
6. Which of these parts would interpret a program’s instructions to initiate the
control operations?
a. Logic unit b. Control unit c. Storage unit d. Input
7. The 1’s complement of 10 is:
a. 10
b. 11
c. 110
d. 01
8. What is the CPU’s section that interprets, selects, and also sees to a program
instructions’ execution?
a. Register unit
b. Control unit
c. ALU
d. Memory
9. A list of various coded instructions is known as:
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a. Flowchart
b. Utility programs
c. Algorithm
d. Computer program
10. Two devices are in network if __________
a. a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in
another device
b. a process is running on both devices
c. PIDs of the processes running of different devices are same
d. a process is active and another is inactive
11. Communication channel is shared by all the machines on the network in
________
a. broadcast network b. unicast network c. multicast network d. anycast
network
12. Bluetooth is an example of __________
a. personal area network b. local area network c. virtual private network d. wide
area network
13. A __________ is a device that forwards packets between networks by
processing the routing information included in the packet.
a. bridge b. firewall c. router d. hub
14. Assembly language
a. uses alphabetic codes in place of binary numbers used in machine
language
b. is the easiest language to write programs c. need not be translated into
machine language d. None of these
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15. The circuit used to store one bit of data is known as
a. Register b. Encoder c. Decoder d. Flip Flop
16. A group of bits that tell the computer to perform a specific operation is
known as
(A) Instruction code (B) Micro-operation (C) Accumulator (D) Register
17. The communication between the components in a microcomputer takes
place via the address and
(A) I/O bus (B) Data bus (C) Address bus (D) Control lines
18. A binary digit is called a
(A) Bit (B) Byte (C) Number (D) Character
19. Status bit is also called
(A) Binary bit (B) Flag bit (C) Signed bit (D) Unsigned bit
Descriptive Questions
20. Elaborate components of computer in brief
21. Draw the instruction format with any example
22. Explain different instruction type .
23. What is instruction? How instruction execute for program?
24. Differentiate between Computer organization and computer architecture.
25. Elaborate terms operands and opcode with example.
26. Explain System buses and their working.
27. What is an instruction cycle and write the phases of Instruction cycle?
28. Differentiate Hardwired and Micro programmed control unit. Is it
possible to have a hardwired control associated with a control memory?
29. Demonstrate the general configuration of Micro programmed Control
unit with a neat block diagram.
30. Discuss in detail about the hardwired control unit with block diagram.
31. Elucidate modes of addressing used in assembly language instructions
with examples?
