COA Question Bank
COA Question Bank
COA Question Bank
Short Answer
Long Answer
1. Discuss Stack Organization. Explain the following in Details.
i. Register Stack
ii. Memory Stack
2. Explain the various addressing modes with diagram.
3. What is general register organization?
4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Polling and daisy chaining bus arbitration schemes.
5. What do you mean by processor organization? Explain various types of processor organization.
6. Classify various registers in Computer Organization.
7. Define Bus System? Explain the Architecture of bus system.
8. Differentiate between Strobe control and Handshaking asynchronous data transfer modes.
9. Why Input Output interface is required? Describe in detail with diagram.
10. Write notes on following:
a) Peripheral devices b) I/O Ports c) Interrupts d) I/O Channels
11. Describe in detail the difference between Programmed I/O and Interrupt driven I/O.
12. What do you mean by Virtual Memory? Discuss how paging helps in implementing virtual memory.
13. What are the differences between hardwired and micro-programmed control unit?
14. Explain Arithmetic & logic unit design with help of example.
15. Show the multiplication process using Booth’s Algorithm when the following numbers are multiplied: (-13) by
(+8).
16. Explain the sequence that takes place when an interrupt occurs.
17. Using the register transfer notations, explain the Memory-Reference instructions with examples.
18. Explain CISC?
19. What is bus Arbitration? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of daisy chaining and parallel arbitration
schemes.
20. Perform Division process of 00001111by 0011(use a dividend of 8bits).
21. Differentiate the following:
a) ROM memories b) Concept implementation of Virtual memory
22. Explain Arithmetic & logic unit design with help of example.
23. What are the differences between RISC and CISC?
24. Explain the concept of Bus and Memory Transfer.
25. Explain Stack Organization with diagram.
26. Discuss Functional units and their interconnections.
27. Describe Standard Communication Interfaces in detail.
28. Write down the difference between isolated I/O and memory Mapped I/O. Also discuss advantage and
disadvantage of isolated I/O and memory mapped I/O.
29. Explain memory hierarchy in details.
30. Explain Micro operations and instruction prefetch or prefetch overlap.
31. Why Input Output interface is required? Describe in details.
32. Describe in details about programmed input/output with neat diagram.
33. Discuss the working principle of I/O processor.
34. Explain interrupts and their types.
35. Explain System bus and 3 categories of bus lines used to provide the communication between the CPU,
memory, and I/O.