Computer Architecture Unit 1,2 Practice Questions
Computer Architecture Unit 1,2 Practice Questions
Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
ROM
EROM
RAM
CPU
Keyboard
Monitor
Register
Hard disk
RAM
Data manipulation
Exponential
Square root
Octal
BCD
Hexadecimal
7) Which of the following memory of the computer is used to speed up the computer processing?
Cache memory
RAM
ROM
Multidirectional
Bidirectional
Unidirectional
Flip Flop
Decoder
Encoder
Register
10) Which of the following is a way in which the components of a computer are connected to each
other
Computer parts
Computer architecture
Computer hardware
11) Which of the following circuit convert the binary data into a decimal?
Decoder
Encoder
Code converter
Multiplexer
12) The address in the main memory is known as -
Logical address
Physical address
Memory address
1's complement
2's complement
3's complement
9's complement
14) Which of the following computer bus connects the CPU to a memory on the system board?
Expansion bus
Width bus
System bus
15) Which of the following memory unit communicates directly with the CPU?
Auxiliary memory
Main memory
Secondary memory
Byte
Nibble
Word
Record
17) Which of the following register can interact with the secondary storage?
PC
MAR
MDR
IR
18) In which of the following form the computer stores its data in memory?
Hexadecimal form
Octal form
Binary form
Decimal form
19) Which of the following is a combinational logic circuit which sends data from a single source to
two or more separate destinations?
Multiplexer
Demultiplexer
Encoder
Decoder
20) Which of the following is a group of bits that tells the computer to perform a particular
operation?
Accumulator
Register
Instruction code
ROM
CPU
RAM
Flash memory
Registers
MDR
PC
IR
Unsigned bit
Signed bit
Flag bit
25) Which of the following register keeps track of the instructions stored in the program stored in
memory?
Accumulator
Address Register
Program Counter
Index Register
Instruction Pointer
Data Counter
Memory pointer
Ring topology
Bus topology
Mesh topology
Star topology
Byte
Nibble
Record
All of the above
Kilobyte (KB)
Megabyte (MB)
Gigabyte (GB)
Terabyte (TB)
33) Which of the following is the operation executed on data stored in registers?
Byte operation
Bit operation
Macrooperation
Microoperation
Accumulators
Registers
36) Which of the following is a combinational logic circuit which converts binary information from n
coded inputs to a maximum of 2n unique outputs?
Multiplexer
Demultiplexer
Encoder
Decoder
37) Which of the following is a combinational logic circuit that change the binary information into N
output lines?
Multiplexer
Demultiplexer
Encoder
Decoder
38) Which of the following is a combinational logic circuit that has 2n input lines and a single output
line?
Multiplexer
Demultiplexer
Encoder
Decoder
39) Which of the following building block can be used to implement any combinational logic circuit?
AND
OR
NAND
40) Which of the following is the circuit board on which chips and processor are placed?
Master circuit
Motherboard
Big board
Accumulator
Instruction Pointer
Storage register
43) Which of the following is the function of the control unit in the CPU?
45) In which of the following term the performance of cache memory is measured?
Chat ratio
Hit ratio
Copy ratio
Data ratio
MMA
DMA
CAD
CAM
Page fault occurs when a program accesses a page which is not present in main memory
1-c
2-c
3-a
4-a
5-d
6-c
7-a
8-c
9-a
10-b
11-c
12-b
13-b
14-c
15-b
16-a
17-b
18-c
19-b
20-c
21-c
22-d
23-b
24-c
25-c
26-a
27-b
28-b
29-b
30-a
31-a
32-a
33-d
34-a
35-b
36-d
37-c
38-a
39-c
40-b
41-a
42-a
43-b
44-a
45-b
46-a
47-b
48-d
49-c