The document contains a set of sample questions related to computer memory, addressing, data representation and storage. Questions cover topics like stored program vs non-stored program computers, memory architecture, addressing schemes, data storage formats like little and big endian, memory cell structure and decoding.
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The document contains a set of sample questions related to computer memory, addressing, data representation and storage. Questions cover topics like stored program vs non-stored program computers, memory architecture, addressing schemes, data storage formats like little and big endian, memory cell structure and decoding.
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Sample Questions:
What do you understand by non-stored program computer?
What do you understand by stored program computer? How programs and data are stored in a stored program computer? What is the benefit of a stored program computer over a non-stored program computer? How does the CPU identify instructions from data? What does memory hold? What are the contents of memory? How many bits are used to represent data? How many bits are used to represent Instructions? How memory devices are designed? How memory capacity is defined? Give examples Show the architecture of memory? How information is stored in memory? What do you understand by a byte addressable memory? Show the architecture of 1KB memory? Identify byte addressable memory: 1KB, 1K x 16bits, 1k x 32 bits. How a 16 bit data is stored in a byte addressable memory. Give example. How a 32 bit data is stored in a byte addressable memory. Give example How a 64 bit data is stored in a byte addressable memory. Give example. What is little endian system? Give example What is big endian system? Give example What do you understand by memory address? How many bits are used to represent memory address? How many bits will require to address all addressable locations of a 1KB memory? How many bits will require to address all addressable locations of a 4KB memory? How many bits will require to address all addressable locations of a 1MB memory? How many bits will require to address all addressable locations of a 1GB memory? Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 1KB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 4KB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 16 KB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 1MB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 1GB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. Show the address of first and highest addressable location of a 4GB memory in binary and hexadecimal format. How 1’s and 0’s are stored in memory? What is a cell? How a cell is designed? What electronic components are used to design a cell? How many bits are stored in a cell? Calculate the number of cells in 1KB memory. Calculate the number of cells in 1K x 4bits memory. How memory address selects a memory location? Explain with diagram. What is address decoder? What is the size of address decoder of 1KB memory? What is the size of address decoder of 4KB memory? What is the size of address decoder of 1MB memory? What is the size of address decoder of 8MB memory? Show, how address decoder is connected to cells. What is RISC? What is CISC? What is a microprocessor? What do you understand by a 16-bit microprocessor? What do you understand by a 32-bit microprocessor?