MCQ 1 What is Cache memory:

(A) A high speed memory (B) Usually a static RAM (C) One of the CPU registers that makes the CPU very fast (D) 1 and 2

MCQ 2 Component used to store one or more bit of data and can accept and/or transfer information serially is called

(A) parallel registers (B) shift registers (C) counters (D) data registers

MCQ 3 Immediate addressing mode of instruction provides the operand in the memory location to

(A) pointed by the PC (B) next of OP code (C) pointed by PC+1 (D) pointed by PC+2

MCQ 4 Physical memory is divided into sets of finite size called as ______ .

(A) Frames (B) Pages (C) Blocks (D) Vectors

MCQ 5 The technique where the controller is given complete access to main memory is __________

(A) Cycle stealing (B) Memory stealing (C) Memory Con (D) Burst mode

MCQ 6 The feature of multimicroprocessor architecture is

(A) task dependent (B) single bus provider for many processors (C) design is for a specific task (D) All of the mentioned

MCQ 7 When the process requests for a DMA transfer?

(A) Then the process is temporarily suspended (B) The process continues execution (C) Another process gets executed (D) Process is temporarily suspended & Another process gets executed

MCQ 8 An address in main memory is called

(A) Physical address (B) Logical address (C) Memory address (D) Word address

MCQ 9 Properly arranged data is called

(A) Field (B) Words (C) Information (D) File

MCQ 10 What is the main difference between a mainframe and a super computer?

(A) Super computer is much larger than mainframe computers (B) Super computers are much smaller than mainframe computers (C) Supercomputers are focused to execute few programs as fast as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute as many programs concurrently (D) Supercomputers are focused to execute as many programs as possible while mainframe uses its power to execute few programs as fast as possible.

MCQ 11 The basic operations performed by a computer are

(A) Arithmetic operation (B) Logical operation (C) Storage and relative (D) All of the above

MCQ 12 The brain of any computer system is

(A) ALU (B) Memory (C) CPU (D) Control unit

MCQ 13 A physical connection between the microprocessor memory and other parts of the microcomputer is known as

(A) Path (B) Address bus (C) Route (D) All of the above

MCQ 14 The number of instructions being executed defines the

(A) Instruction count (B) Hit time (C) Clock rate (D) All of the above

MCQ 15 ____________ method is used to map logical addresses of variable length onto physical memory.

(A) Paging (B) Overlays (C) Segmentation (D) Paging with segmentation

MCQ 16 During transfer of data between the processor and memory we use___________.

(A) Cache (B) TLB (C) Buffers (D) Registers

MCQ 17 A computer consists of

(A) A central processing unit (B) A memory (C) Input and output unit (D) All of the above

MCQ 18 The number of 256*4 RAM chips required to construct 2KB CACHE is

(A) 8 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 16

MCQ 19 The most popular high level language of times amongst scientist and engineers is said to be

(A) COBOL (B) Python (C) Assembly (D) FORTRAN

MCQ 20 SIMD represents an organization that ______________.

(A) refers to a computer system capable of processing several programs at the same time (B) represents organization of single computer containing a control unit, processor unit and a memory unit (C) includes many processing units under the supervision of a common control unit (D) None of the above

MCQ 21 What interface is used to connect the processor to I/O devices that require transmission of data one bit at a time?

(A) Parallel (B) Serial (C) Output (D) Input

MCQ 22 The code used to boot up a computer is stored in

(A) RAM (B) ROM (C) PROM (D) EPROM

MCQ 23 Memory mapped I/O involves transferring of

(A) Information between memory locations (B) Information between registers and memory (C) Information between CPU and I/O devices (D) Information between I/O devices and CPU

MCQ 24 Zero address instruction format is used for

(A) RISC architecture (B) CISC architecture (C) Von-Neuman architecture (D) Stack-organized architecture

MCQ 25 The particular block's statuses of physical memory are normally kept in one location, called

(A) Register (B) Directory (C) Stack (D) Queue