S.

D COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
Unit-1,2

1) Who developed the basic architecture of computer?

Blaise Pascal

Charles Babbage

John Von Neumann

None of the above

2) Which of the following allows simultaneous write and read operations?

ROM

EROM

RAM

None of the above

3) Which of the following is not considered as a peripheral device?

CPU

Keyboard

Monitor

All of the above

4) Which of the following computer memory is fastest?

Register

Hard disk

RAM

None of the above

5) Which of the following operations is/are performed by the ALU?

Data manipulation

Exponential

Square root

All of the above

6) Which of the following format is used to store data?

Decimal

Octal

BCD

Hexadecimal

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7) Which of the following memory of the computer is used to speed up the computer processing?

Cache memory

RAM

ROM

None of the above

8) Computer address bus is -

Multidirectional

Bidirectional

Unidirectional

None of the above

9) Which of the following circuit is used to store one bit of data?

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

None of the above

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

None of the above

13) Subtraction in computers is carried out by -

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

None of the above

15) Which of the following memory unit communicates directly with the CPU?

Auxiliary memory

Main memory

Secondary memory

None of the above

16) The collection of 8-bits is called as -

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

None of the above

21) Where is the document temporarily stored during working on a document on PC

ROM

CPU

RAM

Flash memory

22) Where is the decoded instruction stored?

Registers

MDR

PC

IR

23) What does MIMD stand for?

Multiple Instruction Memory Data

Multiple Instruction Multiple Data

Memory Instruction Multiple Data

Memory Information Memory Data

24) The status bit is also called as

Unsigned bit

Signed bit

Flag bit

None of the above

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

26) The Program Counter is also called as -

Instruction Pointer

Data Counter

Memory pointer

None of the above

27) Which of the following topology is used in Ethernet?

Ring topology

Bus topology

Mesh topology

Star topology

28) Which of the following is correct about memory and storage?

Memory is temporary, Storage is temporary

Memory is temporary, Storage is permanent

Memory is permanent, Storage is temporary

Memory is slow, Storage is Fast

29) Which of the following is equal to 4 bits?

Byte

Nibble

Record
All of the above

30) What does one thousand bytes represent

Kilobyte (KB)

Megabyte (MB)

Gigabyte (GB)

Terabyte (TB)

31) What is the content of stack pointer (SP)?

Address of the top element in the stack

Address of current instruction

Address of next instruction

None of the above

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32) An n-bit microprocessor has -

n- bit instruction register

n- bit address register

n-bit program counter

None of the above

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33) Which of the following is the operation executed on data stored in registers?

Byte operation

Bit operation

Macrooperation

Microoperation

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34) What does a computer bus line consists of?

Set of parallel lines

Accumulators

Registers

None of the above

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35) Which of the following is performed by half adder?

Binary addition operation for 2 decimal inputs

Binary addition operation for 2 binary inputs

Decimal addition operation for 2 decimal inputs

Binary addition operation for 2 binary inputs

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

None of the above

40) Which of the following is the circuit board on which chips and processor are placed?

Master circuit

Motherboard

Big board

None of the above

41) Which of the following computer register collects the result of computation?

Accumulator

Instruction Pointer

Storage register

None of the above

42) CISC stands for -

Complex Instruction Set Computer

Complete Instruction Sequential Compilation

Complex Instruction Sequential Compiler

None of the above

43) Which of the following is the function of the control unit in the CPU?

It stores program instruction

It decodes program instruction

It performs logic operations

None of the above

44) What does EEPROM stands for?

Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory

Electronically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory

Electrically Enabled and Programmable Read-Only Memory

None of the above

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45) In which of the following term the performance of cache memory is measured?

Chat ratio

Hit ratio

Copy ratio

Data ratio

46) RISC stands for -

Reduce Instruction Set Computer

Risk Instruction Sequential Compilation

Risk Instruction Source Compiler

None of the above

47) Which of the following is an essential data transfer technique

MMA

DMA

CAD

CAM

48) Which of the following is page fault?

Page fault occurs when a program accesses a page of another program

Page fault occurs when a program accesses a page in main memory

Page fault occurs when there is an error in particular page

Page fault occurs when a program accesses a page which is not present in main memory

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49) What does DRAM stands for?

Dynamic Read Access Memory

Digital Random Access Memory

Dynamic Random Access Memory

Dynamic Read Allocation 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