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This document appears to be a past exam paper for a computer architecture course. It contains 5 sections: Section A asks the student to answer 10 multiple choice questions related to computer architecture topics like registers, interrupts, stacks, and addressing modes. Section B contains 5 short answer questions asking the student to explain differences between RISC and CISC architectures, instruction formats, perform a binary multiplication, explain interrupts and their cycle, compare isolated I/O and memory mapped I/O, and explain stack organization and differences between RAM and ROM. Section C contains 3 longer answer questions asking the student to explain addressing modes with examples, describe direct memory access (DMA) including the DMA controller and its modes

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ComputerArch Nov2014

This document appears to be a past exam paper for a computer architecture course. It contains 5 sections: Section A asks the student to answer 10 multiple choice questions related to computer architecture topics like registers, interrupts, stacks, and addressing modes. Section B contains 5 short answer questions asking the student to explain differences between RISC and CISC architectures, instruction formats, perform a binary multiplication, explain interrupts and their cycle, compare isolated I/O and memory mapped I/O, and explain stack organization and differences between RAM and ROM. Section C contains 3 longer answer questions asking the student to explain addressing modes with examples, describe direct memory access (DMA) including the DMA controller and its modes

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S.B. Roll No.

________________________
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
4th Exam/Comp/IT/3621/0162/2962/Nov14

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Duration 3 Hrs.

Q1.

Section A
Do as directed.
15
(i) Which of the following registers is used to keep track of address of the memory location
where the next instruction is located?
a. Memory Address Register
b. Memory Data Register
c. Instruction Register
d. Program Register
(ii) Interrupts which are initiated by an instruction are
a. internal
b. external
c. hardware
d. software
(iii) A stack is
a. an 8-bit register in the microprocessor
b. a 16-bit register in the microprocessor
c. a set of memory locations in R/WM reserved for storing information temporarily during the
execution of computer
d. a 16-bit memory address stored in the program counter
(iv) PC Program Counter is also called ...................
(v) Memory access in RISC architecture is limited to instructions ___________
(vi) In case of, Zero-address instruction method the operands are stored in _____ .
(vii)The addressing mode, where you directly specify the operand value is _______ .
(viii)What does RISC stands for ?
(ix) In a system with a 16 bit address bus, what is the maximum number of 1K byte memory
devices it could contain _______________
(x) Which bus is used to transfer data from main memory to peripheral device?

Q2.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)

Q3.

M.Marks:75

Section B
Attempt any five questions
What is difference between RISC and CISC architecture?
What are the computer basic Instruction formats? Explain them with diagram.
Perform the following operation
11001012 1111012
What is an interrupt? Explain its cycle also.
Write the differences between Isolated I/O and Memory Mapped I/O
Write a note on stack organization.
What is difference between RAM and ROM chips?
Section C
Attempt any two questions
Explain the type of addressing modes with the help of examples?

(6*5=30)

(2*15=30)

Q4.

What do you mean by DMA and DMA controller? Draw block diagram of DMA controller. Also
explain modes of operations used in DMA.

Q5.

What is virtual memory? How it is used by operating system?

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