22415 Microprocessor MCQs

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Question In 8086 when Interrupt flag is set ____________

A The maskable interrupts are recognised by the CPU

B The maskable interrupts are not recognised by the CPU

C The non-maskable interrupts are recognised by the CPU

D None of thses

Answer A

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Question In 8086 Parity flag is set when ____________

A The result contain even number of 1's

B The result contain odd number of 1's

C The result contain all zeros

D both a and b

Answer A

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Question Which of the following is the 8 bit microprocessor?

A 8008

B 8080

C 8085

D All of these

Answer D

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Question The I/O space of 8086 is ________ .

A 64 K Word ports

B 64 K byte ports

C 32 K byte ports

D 16 K Word ports

Answer B

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Question The 8086 is a __________ bit Microprocessor.

A 8 bit

B 32 bit

C 16 bit

D 24 bit

Answer C

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Question The operating modes of 8086 is ______________

A Real mode

B Maximum mode

C Minimum Mode

D Both b and c

Answer D

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Question The 8086 has ____________ data bus

A 32 bit

B 16 bit

C 64 bit

D 8 bit

Answer B

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Question The 8086 has ____________ Address bus

A 20 bit

B 16 bit

C 32 bit

D 24 bit

Answer A

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Question The Instruction queue of 8086 is ____________ Bytes

A 8 bytes

B 6 bytes

C 8 bytes

D 12 bytes

Answer B

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Question What is the maximum size of each memory segment in 8086?

A 64 kbyte

B 32 kbyte

C 60 kbyte

D 8 kbyte

Answer A

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Question What is the size of physical memory in 8086?

A 64 Kbyte

B 1 Mbyte

C 32 Kbyte

D 24 Kbyte

Answer B

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Question In 8086, _______ is the example for Non-maskable interrupt.

A Trap

B RST6.5

C INTR

D None of these

Answer D

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Question Which processor structure is pipelined?

A all x80 processors

B all x85 processors

C all x86 processors

D None of these

Answer C

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Question In 8086 the overflow flag is set when___________

A The sum is more than 16 bits

B Signed numbers go out of their range after an arithmetic operation

C Carry and sign flags are set

D During subtraction

Answer B

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Question What is meant by Maskable interrupts?

A An interrupt which can never be turned off.

B An interrupt that can be turned off by the programmer.

C An interuppt is always on

D None of these

Answer B

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Question Which of the following is /are the functions of BIU?

A To send the address of memory or I/O

B To fetch instruction from memory

C To support instruction queuing

D All of these

Answer D

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Question The BIU of 8086 consist of ____________

A segment registers

B instruction queue

C Instruction Pointer

D All of these

Answer D

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Question The Segment register of 8086 is __________ bit.

A 8 bit

B 16 bit

C 32 bit

D 20 bit

Answer B

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Question The queue of 8086 operates on the principle of ___________

A LIFO

B FIFO

C LILO

D FILO

Answer B

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Question Feature of fetching the next instruction while the current instruction is executing is called
____________

A Fetching

B Pipelining

C Execution

D Decoding

Answer B

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Question The EU unit of 8086 consist of ____________

A ALU

B Flag register

C instruction decoder

D All of these

Answer D

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Question A register set of 8086 consists of ____________

A General purpose register

B Pointer register

C Index register

D All of these

Answer D

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Question The flag register of 8086 is _________ bits

A 8 bits

B 32 bits

C 16 bits

D 24 bits

Answer C

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Question During physical address calculation the segment register content are shifted by _______________

A 2-bits left

B 4-bits left

C 2-bits right

D 4-bits right

Answer B

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Question During instruction fetch __________ and __________ registers are used.

A IP , DS

B CS , IP

C SS , BP

D SS , IP

Answer B

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Question What is the size of TR in 80386?

A 16 bits

B 32 bits

C 48 bits

D 64 bits

Answer A

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Question ____________ flag of 8086 is used for single stepping mode through a program

A Zero flag

B Trap Flag

C Sign Flag

D Interrupt Flag

Answer B

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Question Which of the following 8086 related statement is/are true?

A segment can overlap

B segment maximum size is 64 kbytes

C segments minimum size is 16 bytes

D All of these

Answer D

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Question _________ allow to use separate memory area for program, data, code and stack

A Segmentation

B Pipelining

C Both a and b

D None of these

Answer A

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Question For the stack operation in 8086 __________ register are used?

A SS

B SP

C BP

D All of these

Answer D

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Question What is the size of physical address in 8086?

A 16 bit

B 20 bit

C 24 bit

D 32 bit

Answer B

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Question The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 1000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI =
4000H, BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 1000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.

Calculate physical address for MOV AX, [5000H].

A 5000H

B 15000H

C 10500H

D 1000500H

Answer B

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Question The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 1000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI =
4000H, BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 1000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.

Calculate physical address for MOV AX, [BP] [SI]

A 18000H

B 15000H

C 12000H
D 28000H

Answer D

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Question The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 1000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI =
4000H, BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 1000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.

Calculate physical address for MOV AX, 5000H [BX] [SI]

A 15000H

B 10000H

C 0A000H

D 1A000H

Answer D

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Id 35

Question What is the output of the following code

AL=88 BCD, CL=49 BCD
ADD AL,CL
DAA

A D7, CF=1

B 37, CF=1

C 73, CF=1

D 7D, CF=1

Answer B

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Question What is the output of the following code
AL= 49 BCD, BH= 72 BCD
SUB AL,BH
DAS

A AL=D7, CF=1.

B AL=7D, CF=1.

C AL=77, CF=1

D none of them

Answer C

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Question What is opcode?

A The instruction that is to be executed

B The value in which an operation acts upon

C A mnemonic that defines a data size

D The compiled assembly code

Answer A

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Id 38

Question What are the names of the 4 segment registers?

A Data, Index, Code, Stack

B Stack, Index, Extra, Code

C Stack, Data, Base, Counter

D Stack, Extra, Code, Data

Answer D

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Question The 8086/8088 used two processing units which were known as:

A Left and Right Units

B Segment and Offset Units

C Bus Unit and Execution Interface Unit

D Bus Interface Unit and Execution Unit

Answer D

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Id 40

Question The first processor to include Virtual memory in the Intel microprocessor family was:

A 4004

B 80286

C 80386

D 80486

Answer B

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Id 41

Question The Effective address range in 8086 is _________________.

A 0000H to FFFFH

B 00000H to FFFFFH

C 0000H to 0FFFH

D None of these

Answer A

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Question Which segment register is used along with BP register to calculate Physical address?

A CS

B SS

C DS

D ES

Answer B

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Id 43

Question Can ROM be used as stack?

A Yes

B No

C Sometimes yes

D Sometimes no

Answer B

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Question The zero flag is reset

A When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction is zero

B When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction is not zero

C When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction produces carry out of MSB.

D None of these

Answer B

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Question What is the size of IP in 8086 is __________________

A 32

B 16

C 48

D Both a and b

Answer B

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Id 46

Question Microprocessor speed depends on ______

A Clock

B Data bus width

C Address bus width

D Size of register

Answer A

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Id 47

Question What is the range of Memory locations in 8086?

A 00000H to FFFFFH

B 0000H to FFFFH

C 000000H to FFFFFFH

D 00000H to FFFFH

Answer A

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Question In 8086 when Auxiliary Flag is set ____________

A If there is carry from lower nibble

B If there is no carry from lower nibble

C Both a and b

D None of these

Answer A

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Question In 8086 when Trap flag is set _______________

A The processor enter the free run mode

B The processor enter the single step execution mode

C Both a and b

D none of these

Answer B

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Question 8088 differs 8086 in _______________

A Data width on the output

b Supports of Co processor

C Address capability

D Supports of max/min mode.

Answer A

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Question
For 8086 _________ bus is bidirectional and __________ bus is unidirectional
A Address, data

B Data , address

C Control, data

D Address, control

Answer B

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Question What is the function of segment registers?

A To store the starting address of corresponding segment
B To store data required for arithmetic or logical operations
C To store address within the segment
D All of above
Answer A

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Question What is the address range of I/O space in 8086?

A 0000h – 0FFFh

B 00000h – FFFFFh

C 0000h – FFFFh

D None of these

Answer C

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Question Which registers are used to generate physical address from logical address?
A Segment registers
B Offset register
C Both (a) and (b)
D General purpose register

Answer C

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Question ALE stands for ______

A Address latch enable

B Address length enable

C Address lower enable

D Address last enable

Answer A

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Question Which flag is not present in 8086 microprocessor but present in 80386 microprocessor?
A Zero Flag

B Sign Flag

C Trap Flag

D Nested Task Flag

Answer D

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Question Which of the following is not possible by a microprocessor?

A Reading from Memory

B Writing into Memory

C Reading from Input port

D Writing into Input port

Answer D

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Question A 32-bit processor has

A 32 register

B 32 I/O devices
C 32 Mb of RAM

D 32bit ALU and 32-bit registers

Answer D

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Question A machine cycle refers to

A fetching an instruction
B clock speed

C fetching, decoding and executing an instruction

D executing an instruction

Answer C

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Question The system bus is made up of ______

A Data bus
B Data bus and address bus
C Data bus and control bus
D Data bus, control bus and address bus
Answer D

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Question The minimum number of bits required to store the hexadecimal number FFH is ______
A 2
B 4
C 8
D 16
Answer C

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Question A megabyte represents ______

A 1 million bytes
B 1024 kilobytes
C 230 bytes

D 1024 bytes
Answer B

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Question The ASCII code of ‘A’ is ______

A 66D

B 41H
C 0100 0010

D 0110 0011
Answer B

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Question Why 80386 processor is called as 32 bit processor?

A Because 80386 processor has 32 bit ALU
B Because 80386 processor has 32 bit data bus
C Both(a) and (b)
D None of these
Answer C

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Question How many break point addresses we can load in debug registers of 80386 microprocessor?
A 4

B 5
C 7

D 8
Answer A

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Question What is the use of base registers and offset registers?

A To hold 16-bit relative address present within the segment
B To perform arithmetic and logical operations
C To hold the data temporary
D All of above
Answer A

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Question If direction flag is set then

A SI is automatically decremented
B SI is automatically incremented
C DI is automatically decremented
D Both (a) and (c)
Answer D

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Question If PE = 1, then 80386 DX microprocessor operates in _____

A Real mode
B Protected mode
C Virtual 86 mode
D Special mode
Answer B

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Question READY# is ________

A Address Bus Ready signal

B Data bus ready signal

C Control Bus ready signal

D All of the above
Answer B

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Question In which microprocessor does the concept of pipeline introduced?

A 80186

B 80286
C 80386

D 80486
Answer A

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Question The parity bits are used to check that a _____

A Two bit error

B Single bit error

C Multi bit error

D None of these

Answer B

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Question ________ is the most important segment and it contains the actual assembly language instruction
to be executed by the microprocessor:
A Data segment

B Code segment

C Stack segment

D Extra segment

Answer B

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Question A microprocessor contains _______

A most of RAM

B most of ROM

C peripheral drivers

D most of the control and arithmetic logic functions of computer

Answer D

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