Computer Organization Mcq

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION MCQ
1. In Reverse Polish notation, expression A*B+C*D is written as

(A) AB*CD*+
(B) A*BCD*+
(C) AB*CD+*
(D) A*B*CD+
Answer: A
2. SIMD represents an organization that ______________.
(A) refers to a computer system capable of processing several programs
at the same time.
(B) represents organization of single computer containing a control unit,
processor unit and a memory unit.
(C) includes many processing units under the supervision of a common
control unit
(D) none of the above.
Answer: C
3. Floating point representation is used to store
(A) Boolean values
(B) whole numbers
(C) real integers
(D) integers
Answer: C
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?
(A) 1 Megabyte/sec
(B) 4 Megabytes/sec
(C) 8 Megabytes/sec
(D) 2 Megabytes/sec
Answer: D
5. 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
Answer: A
6. In computers, subtraction is generally carried out by
(A) 9’s complement
(B) 10’s complement
(C) 1’s complement
(D) 2’s complement
Answer: D
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
(A) the time its takes for the platter to make a full rotation
(B) the time it takes for the read-write head to move into position over
the appropriate track
(C) the time it takes for the platter to rotate the correct sector under the
head
(D) none of the above
Answer: A
8. What characteristic of RAM memory makes it not suitable for
permanent storage?
(A) too slow
(B) unreliable
(C) it is volatile
(D) too bulky
Answer: C
9. Computers use addressing mode techniques for
_____________________.
(A) giving programming versatility to the user by providing facilities as
pointers to memory counters for loop control
(B) to reduce no. of bits in the field of instruction
(C) specifying rules for modifying or interpreting address field of the
instruction
(D) All the above
Answer: D
10. The circuit used to store one bit of data is known as
(A) Register
(B) Encoder
(C) Decoder
(D) Flip Flop
Answer: D
11. (2FAOC) 16 is equivalent to
(A) (195 084) 10
(B) (001011111010 0000 1100) 2
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these
Answer: B
12. The average time required to reach a storage location in
memory and obtain its contents is called the
(A) seek time
(B) turnaround time
(C) access time
(D) transfer time
Answer: C
13. Which of the following is not a weighted code?
(A) Decimal Number system
(B) Excess 3-cod
(C) Binary number System
(D) None of these
Answer: B
14. The idea of cache memory is based
(A) on the property of locality of reference
(B) on the heuristic 90-10 rule
(C) on the fact that references generally tend to cluster
(D) all of the above
Answer: A
15. Which of the following is lowest in memory hierarchy?
(A) Cache memory
(B) Secondary memory
(C) Registers
(D) RAM
(E) None of these
Ans
Answer: B
16. The addressing mode used in an instruction of the form ADD
X Y, is
(A) Absolute
(B) indirect
(C) index
(D) none of these
Answer: C
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
(A) 93%
(B) 90%
(C) 88%
(D) 87%
Answer: B
18. In a memory-mapped I/O system, which of the following will
not be there?
(A) LDA
(B) IN
(C) ADD
(D) OUT
Answer: A
19. In a vectored interrupt.
(A) the branch address is assigned to a fixed location in memory.
(B) the interrupting source supplies the branch information to the
processor through an interrupt vector.
(C) the branch address is obtained from a register in the processor
(D) none of the above
Answer: B
20. Von Neumann architecture is
(A) SISD
(B) SIMD
(C) MIMD
(D) MISD
Answer: A
21. The circuit used to store one bit of data is known as
(A) Encoder
(B) OR gate
(C) Flip Flop
(D) Decoder
Answer: C
22. Cache memory acts between
(A) CPU and RAM
(B) RAM and ROM
(C) CPU and Hard Disk
(D) None of these
Answer: A
23. Write Through technique is used in which memory for
updating the data
(A) Virtual memory
(B) Main memory
(C) Auxiliary memory
(D) Cache memory
Answer: D
24. Generally Dynamic RAM is used as main memory in a
computer system as it
(A) Consumes less power
(B) has higher speed
(C) has lower cell density
(D) needs refreshing circuitary
Answer: B
25. In signed-magnitude binary division, if the dividend is (11100)
2 and divisor is (10011) 2 then the result is
(A) (00100) 2
(B) (10100) 2
(C) (11001) 2
(D) (01100) 2
Answer: B
26. Virtual memory consists of
(A) Static RAM
(B) Dynamic RAM
(C) Magnetic memory
(D) None of these
Answer: A
27. In a program using subroutine call instruction, it is necessary
(A) initialise program counter
(B) Clear the accumulator
(C) Reset the microprocessor
(D) Clear the instruction register
Answer: D
28. A Stack-organised Computer uses instruction of
(A) Indirect addressing
(B) Two-addressing
(C) Zero addressing
(D) Index addressing
Answer: C
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
(A) 11 bits
(B) 21 bits
(C) 16 bits
(D) 20 bits
Answer: C
30 A-Flip Flop can be converted into T-Flip Flop by using
additional logic circuit
(A) n TQD =•
(B) T D =
(C) D = T . Q n
(D) n TQD =?
Answer: D

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