1. The ______ format is usually used to store data.
a) BCD
b) Decimal
c) Hexadecimal
d) Octal
2. A source program is usually in _______
a) Assembly language
b) Machine level language
c) High-level language
d) Natural language
3. Which memory device is generally made of semi-
conductors?
a) RAM
b) Hard-disk
c) Floppy disk
d) Cd disk
4. The small extremely fast, RAM’s are called as _______
a) Cache
b) Heaps
c) Accumulators
d) Stacks
5. The ALU makes use of _______ to store the intermediate
results.
a) Accumulators
b) Registers
c) Heap
d) Stack
6. The control unit controls other units by generating ____
a) Control signals
b) Timing signals
c) Transfer signals
d) Command Signals
7. ______ are numbers and encoded characters, generally
used as operands.
a) Input
b) Data
c) Information
d) Stored Values
9. ______ bus structure is usually used to connect I/O
devices.
a) Single bus
b) Multiple bus
c) Star bus
d) Rambus
10. The I/O interface required to connect the I/O device to
the bus consists of ______
a) Address decoder and registers
b) Control circuits
c) Address decoder, registers and Control circuits
d) Only Control circuits
11. To reduce the memory access time we generally make
use of ______
a) Heaps
b) Higher capacity RAM’s
c) SDRAM’s
d) Cache’s
12. ______ is generally used to increase the apparent size of
physical memory.
a) Secondary memory
b) Virtual memory
c) Hard-disk
d) Disks
15. The time delay between two successive initiation of
memory operation _______
a) Memory access time
b) Memory search time
c) Memory cycle time
d) Instruction delay
16. The decoded instruction is stored in ______
a) IR
b) PC
c) Registers
d) MDR
17. The instruction -> Add LOCA, R0 does _______
a) Adds the value of LOCA to R0 and stores in the temp register
b) Adds the value of R0 to the address of LOCA
c) Adds the values of both LOCA and R0 and stores it in R0
d) Adds the value of LOCA with a value in accumulator and
stores it in R0
18. Which registers can interact with the secondary
storage?
a) MAR
b) PC
c) IR
d) R0
19. During the execution of a program which gets
initialized first?
a) MDR
b) IR
c) PC
d) MAR
20. Which of the register/s of the processor is/are
connected to Memory Bus?
a) PC
b) MAR
c) IR
d) Both PC and MAR
21. The internal Components of the processor are
connected by _______
a) Processor intra-connectivity circuitry
b) Processor bus
c) Memory bus
d) Rambus
22. The registers, ALU and the interconnection between
them are collectively called as _____
a) process route
b) information trail
c) information path
d) data path
23. ANSI stands for __________
a) American National Standards Institute
b) American National Standard Interface
c) American Network Standard Interfacing
d) American Network Security Interrupt
24. The main advantage of multiple bus organisation over
single bus is _____
a) Reduction in the number of cycles for execution
b) Increase in size of the registers
c) Better Connectivity
d) None of the mentioned
25. During the execution of the instructions, a copy of the
instructions is placed in the ______
a) Register
b) RAM
c) System heap
d) Cache
26. A processor performing fetch or decoding of different
instruction during the execution of another instruction is
called ______
a) Super-scaling
b) Pipe-lining
c) Parallel Computation
d) None of the mentioned
27. An optimizing Compiler does _________
a) Better compilation of the given piece of code
b) Takes advantage of the type of processor and reduces its
process time
c) Does better memory management
d) none of the mentioned
28. The ultimate goal of a compiler is to ________
a) Reduce the clock cycles for a programming task
b) Reduce the size of the object code
c) Be versatile
d) Be able to detect even the smallest of errors
29. When Performing a looping operation, the instruction
gets stored in the ______
a) Registers
b) Cache
c) System Heap
d) System stack
30. The average number of steps taken to execute the set
of instructions can be made to be less than one by
following _______
a) ISA
b) Pipe-lining
c) Super-scaling
d) Sequential
31. CISC stands for _______
a) Complete Instruction Sequential Compilation
b) Computer Integrated Sequential Compiler
c) Complex Instruction Set Computer
d) Complex Instruction Sequential Compilation
32. The instruction, ADD #45, R1 does _______
a) Adds the value of 45 to the address of R1 and stores 45 in
that address
b) Adds 45 to the value of R1 and stores it in R1
c) Finds the memory location 45 and adds that content to that
of R1
d) None of the mentioned
33. In case of, Zero-address instruction method the
operands are stored in _____
a) Registers
b) Accumulators
c) Push down stack
d) Cache
34. Add #45, when this instruction is executed the
following happen/s _______
a) The processor raises an error and requests for one more
operand
b) The value stored in memory location 45 is retrieved and
one more operand is requested
c) The value 45 gets added to the value on the stack and is
pushed onto the stack
d) None of the mentioned
35. The addressing mode which makes use of in-direction
pointers is ______
a) Indirect addressing mode
b) Index addressing mode
c) Relative addressing mode
d) Offset addressing mode
36. In the following indexed addressing mode instruction,
MOV 5(R1), LOC the effective address is ______
a) EA = 5+R1
b) EA = R1
c) EA = [R1]
d) EA = 5+[R1]
37. The addressing mode/s, which uses the PC instead of a
general-purpose register is ______
a) Indexed with offset
b) Relative
c) direct
d) both Indexed with offset and direct
38. The addressing mode, where you directly specify the
operand value is _______
a) Immediate
b) Direct
c) Definite
d) Relative
39. The effective address of the following instruction is,
MUL 5(R1, R2).
a) 5+R1+R2
b) 5+(R1*R2)
c) 5+[R1] +[R2].
d) 5*([R1] +[R2])
40. _____ addressing mode is most suitable to change the
normal sequence of execution of instructions.
a) Relative
b) Indirect
c) Index with Offset
d) Immediate
41. Which method/s of representation of numbers
occupies large amount of memory than others?
a) Sign-magnitude
b) 1’s compliment
c) 2’s compliment
d) 1’s & 2’s compliment
42. Which representation is most efficient to perform
arithmetic operations on the numbers?
a) Sign-magnitude
b) 1’s compliment
c) 2’S compliment
d) None of the mentioned
43. Which method of representation has two
representations for ‘0’?
a) Sign-magnitude
b) 1’s compliment
c) 2’s compliment
d) None of the mentioned
44. When we perform subtraction on -7 and 1 the answer
in 2’s compliment form is _________
a) 1010
b) 1110
c) 0110
d) 1000
45. When we perform subtraction on -7 and -5 the answer
in 2’s compliment form is ________
a) 11110
b) 1110
c) 1010
d) 0010
46. The processor keeps track of the results of its
operations using a flag called ________
a) Conditional code flags
b) Test output flags
c) Type flags
d) None of the mentioned
47. The register used to store the flags is called as _________
a) Flag register
b) Status register
c) Test register
d) Log register
48. The Flag ‘V’ is set to 1 indicates that,
a) The operation is valid
b) The operation is validated
c) The operation as resulted in an overflow
d) None of the mentioned
49. The most efficient method followed by computers to
multiply two unsigned numbers is _______
a) Booth algorithm
b) Bit pair recording of multipliers
c) Restoring algorithm
d) Non-restoring algorithm
50. When 1101 is used to divide 100010010 the
remainder is ______
a) 101
b) 11
c) 0
d) 1
