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Coa Question by Sir

The document contains 76 sample questions for a computer organization and architecture exam for students in the 6th semester of an electronics and communication engineering program. The questions cover a wide range of topics related to computer organization and architecture including CPU and memory organization, I/O systems, instruction sets, assembly language, and performance enhancement techniques like pipelining and parallel processing.

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CAY 2022-23

DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jalandhar


Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
B. Tech. – ECE/CE (6th Semester)
Question Bank for MST-2
Subject: Computer Organization & Architecture (BTES-402-18) – Open Elective

Sample Questions for MST-1

1. Compare computer architecture and computer organization.


2. What is the role of a CPU in a computer system? Explain with the help of a block diagram.
3. Explain the block diagram of a computer. Also explain the difference between main memory
and auxiliary memory.
4. What is the meaning of Bit, byte, KB, MB & GB? Explain the process of calculating memory
capacity for given number of address and data lines.
5. Discuss the importance of memory in a computer system. Also explain various operations
associated with the memory.
6. Explain the stored program concept used in modern computers.
7. What is the role of a device controller in computer system?
8. What is an instruction cycle? Explain its different phases.
9. Explain various CPU registers.
10. Compare macro-operation and macro-operation.
11. Explain the concept of interrupt used in microprocessor based systems.
12. Explain different data transfer techniques used in computer systems.
13. Discuss different types of buses used in computer systems.
14. How to measure performance of a computer? Explain.
15. Discuss the approaches used in enhancement of computer performance.
16. Compare RISC and CISC processors.
17. The Intel Pentium processor has 32-bit address and its memory is byte addressable. What is
the maximum physical memory capacity for a microcomputer built around this
microprocessor?
18. The Intel 80286 microprocessor has 24-bit address. What is the maximum number of 32-bit
words possible for its memory?
19. The original IBM PC based on Intel 8088 supplied a clock signal of 4.77 MHz to the
microprocessor. What is the period of the clock signal?
20. What are the factors which can affect design of a processor? Also explain the steps involved
in processor design.
21. Explain how micro-operations are represented using RTL notations.
22. Explain the importance of control unit in a CPU.
23. What are status flags? Discuss the flag register of a processor.
24. Discuss the factors to be considered in instruction set design.
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25. Explain the different types of instruction set architectures.


26. Explain the terms instruction length and instruction format.
27. Discuss different classifications of CPU instructions.
28. Explain the popular addressing modes used by a CPU.
29. How do characters and special symbols are represented in binary?
30. How can you form the negation of an integer in tows complement representation?
31. When does the condition of overflow occur while adding two signed numbers?
32. Explain shift and add method of binary multiplication.
33. Design a circuit for 3-bit carry save multiplier.
34. Given a = 0011 and b = 1011 in twos complement notation. Compute the product of ‘a’ and
‘b’ using Booth’s algorithm.
35. Explain restoring method of binary division. Consider a suitable example.
36. Explain non-restoring method of binary division. Consider a suitable example.
37. What are the essential elements of a number in floating-point representation?
38. What is the benefit of using biased representation of the exponent portion of a floating-point
number?
39. Express the following numbers in IEEE 32-bit floating-point format:
a. -1.5
b. 1/16
c. 384.6
40. The following numbers use the IEEE 32-bit floating-point format. What is the equivalent
decimal value?
a. 11000001000100000000000000000000
b. 00111111000001100110011001100110
41. Explain the process of performing floating-point addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division. Consider suitable examples.

Sample Questions for MST-2

42. Briefly explain what is meant by a hardwired implementation of a control unit.


43. What is the difference between a hardwired implementation and a microprogrammed
implementation of a control unit?
44. What are the two basic tasks performed by a microprogrammed control unit?
45. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a microprogrammed control unit.
46. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a hardwired control unit.
47. Discuss the two approaches of handling multiple interrupts.
48. Why are the peripherals not connected directly to the system bus? What are the major
functions of an I/O module?
49. What is the difference between memory-mapped I/O and isolated I/O?
50. What is the role of DMA module when the processor wishes to read or write a block of data?
51. Explain program controlled I/O transfer method.
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52. What are the advantages of using DMA method over interrupt driven method of I/O transfer?
53. What are privileged and non-privileged instructions?
54. Explain software interrupts and exceptions.
55. Explain the role of interrupts in process state transition.
56. Write a short note on SCII and USB interfaces.
57. What is the difference between DRAM and SRAM in terms of characteristics and
application?
58. Compare EPROM, EEPROM and flash memory.
59. What are the advantages of using memory interleaving?
60. What are the advantages of using cache?
61. Why the concept of hierarchical memory organization is used in computers? Explain.
62. How does the principle of locality relate to the use of multiple memory levels?
63. What is cache mapping? Briefly explain various mapping functions.
64. For a direct mapped cache, a main memory address is viewed as consisting of three fields.
List and define the three fields.
65. What is the difference between a logical address and a physical address?
66. What is cache hit-rate? What type of replacement algorithms are used to improve the hit rate?
67. Write a note on write policies used in memory management.
68. Discuss the effect of cache size and block size on system performance.
69. Briefly describe some of the methods used to increase processor speed.
70. Define the terms throughput and speedup.
71. What is instruction pipelining? What are the advantages of using pipelining over sequential
processing?
72. What are the advantages of increasing number of stages in pipelining process?
73. What are the reasons of pipeline stall? Discuss.
74. List and briefly define the four categories of computer systems proposed by Flynn.
75. What are the chief characteristics of an SMP?
76. What is concurrent access to memory and cache coherency? How to control the cache
coherency?
77. What is the meaning of each of the four states of the MESI protocol?

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