Microprocessor First Quiz Objectives

Identification
1. This is a specialized machine for cipher-breaking,
not a general-purpose calculator or computer but
some sort of logic device, using a combination of
electronics and relay logic. It reads data optically
at 2000 characters per second from 2 closed loops
of paper tape, each typically about 1000
characters long. It was significant since it was the
fore-runner of Colossus, see December 1943.
Colossus 1

2. Floppy Disk was invented at the Imperial
University in Tokyo Japan. What is the name of
the inventor?
Yoshiro Nakamatsu

3. Who builds the first binary calculator at Bell
Telephone Laboratories?
George Stibitz

4. The first binary calculator based on Boolean
algebra. It works with floating point numbers
having a 7-bit exponent, 16-bit mantissa, and a
sign bit. The memory uses sliding metal parts to
store 16 such numbers and works well; but the
arithmetic unit is less successful.
Z1

5. What was the original name of Z2?


6. What is the temperature range within which a disk
will operate?
10-50C

7. What term is used for programs such as
assemblers, compilers and operating systems?
Software

8. What is one of the more widespread uses of the
computer?
Word-processing

9. What were computers of the first generation
characterized by?
Vacuum Tubes

10. What is the name of the first high-level language
invented by Grace Hopper in 1953?
Flow-matic

11. A Yugoslavian who worked for Thomas Edison,
patents electrical logic circuits called gates or
switches?
Nikola Tesla

12. A programming language released by Kenneth
Iverson at IBM in 1961.
APL

13. The first structured procedural.
Algol

14. JOHNNIAC was a reference to a person who was
unquestionably a genius. At age 6 he could tell
jokes in classical Greek. By 8 he was doing
calculus. He could recite books he had read years
earlier word for word. He could read a page of the
phone directory and recite it backwards.
John Von Neumann

15. In 1952, this person writes the first computer
manual.
Fred Gruenberger

16. He builds a large scale analog calculator, the
differential analyzer, at MIT.
Vannevar Bush

17. The most common method of creating a backup
for a microcomputer in late 90s.
Floppy Disk and Disk Copy Procedure

18. What is another name of Gerbert of Aurillac, who
devises a more efficient abacus?
Pope Sylvester II

19. Scotsman named John Napier invented a
technology that allows multiplication to be
performed via addition.
Logarithms

20. How many systems dealing with accounting
applications have been widely accepted?


21. What is the name called by this German Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz (co-inventor with Newton of
calculus) managed who build a four-function
(addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
calculator because, instead of gears, it employed
fluted drums having ten flutes arranged around
their circumference in a stair-step fashion?
Stepped Reckoner

22. UNIVAC computer, the first commercial (that is,
mass produced) computer. What is UNIVAC
stands for?
Universal Automatic Computer

23. It is a machine weighed 5 tons, incorporated 500
miles of wire, was 8 feet tall and 51 feet long, and
had a 50 feet rotating shaft running its length,
turned by a 5 horsepower electric motor?
Mark I

24. What is the first computer Bug?
Dead Moth

25. Who found the first computer bug?
Grace Hopper

26. He develops the first commercially successful
mechanical adding machine?
William Burroughs

27. He published the Mathematical Analysis of Logic
using the binary system now known as Boolean
algebra.
George Boole

28. In 1952, this person writes the first computer
manual.
Fred Gruenberger

29. These are computers design to perform a wide
variety of functions and operations.
General Purpose Computers

30. It is a communications pathway connecting two or
more devices.
Bus

31. A register that specify the address in memory for
the next read or write operation.
Memory Address Register

32. The most common output display or monitor was
the CRT and was invented in 1928. Who was then
the inventor?
Vladimir Zworykin

33. In what year that Wilhelm Schickard builds the first
four function calculator-clock at the University of
Heidelberg.
1624

34. A program that is written in machine language.
Source Program

35. How many instructions set thus the 8080
microprocessor has?
72

36. LDA, SUB and ADD in SAP assembly language
are the instruction set, and they involve data
stored in the memory. What is the reference name
given to the three instructions set?
Memory Reference Instruction

37. A program that is written purely in mnemonics.
Source Code


38. It is used to keep track of which instruction is to be
fetched next.
Program Counter

39. SAP has six T states (fetch and execute), what is
the reference name given to this states?
Machine Cycle

40. A number of T states needed to fetch and execute
an instruction. And is referred as what?
Instruction Cycle

41. That part of the instruction which tells the
computer what operation to perform.
Op Code

42. The mnemonics used in writing a program in SAP.
Assembly Language

43. What is the central set of programs called that
manages the execution of other programs and
performs common functions like read, write and
print?
Operating System

44. In first generation computers, internal processing
functions were measured by what division of time?
Millisecond

45. What type of applications was most third
generation computer systems designed to
accomplish?
Both Scientific and Business Data
Processing Application

46. The first virtual memory machine, installed in
England by Feranti. It was developed at the
University of Manchester by R.M. Kilburn.
Atlas

47. How many millions of instructions thus an 80286
can executes in a second?
8 MIPs

48. It is a module contains basic components for
accepting data and instruction in some form and
converting them into an external form of signals
usable by the system.
I/O Module

49. A register that specify the address in memory for
the next read or write.
Memory Buffer Register

50. It is used to keep track of which instruction is to be
fetched next.
Instruction Address Register

51. The collection of paths connecting the various
modules.
Interconnection Structures

52. A communications pathway connecting two or
more devices.
Bus

53. It is an architecture that theres a collection of lines
that are shared by all modules.
I/O to Bus

54. Lines that designate the source or destination of
the data on the data bus.
Address Lines

55. A register that contains data read from memory or
data to be written to memory.
Memory Data Register

56. It is an architecture that involves the direct
independent access of main memory by two or
more components.
I/O to Memory

57. It is a device that allows a computer to exchange
data with a remote device which may be human
readable for machine.


58. It needs to have a memory to set the instruction
and place to hold this instruction which is the
Instruction Register (IR).


59. Include the address and switch register. The
switch register which are part of the input unit
register allow sending an address bits to the RAM.
MAR

60. Is a part of a control unit, the contents of these
register are split into two nibbles; upper nibbles
which has two state output that goes directly to the
controller, sequencer and lower nibble which has
three state output that is directed into WBUS.
IR

61. The SAP-1 architecture is 8 bits comprise of how
many memory location and memory contains.


62. Machine instruction that composed of 1s 0s.


63. Which is also part of control unit which send
addresses to the memory, the address of the next
instruction to be fetched are executed.



64. Controls the operation of the computer.
Controller

65. The first part of the instruction cycle, where the
address is sent to the memory.


66. A control word out of the controller-sequencer.


67. It is this state where the address in the program
counter is transferred to the MAR.


68. It is part of the instruction which tells the computer
what to do.
Op Code

69. It is a register that receives instructions from the
memory.
Instruction Register

70. It is in this state where the instruction in the
memory is transferred to the instruction register.


71. An instruction that calls for a second memory
operation to access data.


72. One of the instructions in the instruction set.


73. The first part of the instruction cycle, where the
address is sent to the memory.
Fetch

74. A program written in mnemonics.
Source Code

75. It is a register that receives the address of the data
to be accessed in memory.
Memory Address Register

76. It is a control line that will indicates that the data
have been accepted from or placed on the bus.
Transfer ACK

77. It indicates that a module needs to gain control of
the bus.


78. It is a general purpose register that also holds the
most significant part of the product or dividend
after/before a 16 or 32 bit multiplication/division.
DX

79. It will indicate the condition of the microprocessor
as well as control its operation.
Flag Register

80. It is a section of memory that holds programs and
procedures used by the program.


81. It is the actual hardware structure of the memory
system.
Physical Memory

82. What is the average instruction execution time of a
50 MIPS processor?
20 ns

83. It is a general purpose pointer often used to
address an array of data in the stack memory.
Base Pointer

84. Mechanical computers are considered to be what
type?
Analog Computer

85. The navy uses analog computers primarily for
what purpose?
Gun Fire Control

86. How do electromechanical computers differ from
the mechanical computers?


87. In electronic computers, vacuum tubes were
replaced by transistors and transistors have been
replaced by what device?
Integrated Circuits

88. What is the average instruction execution time of a
75 MIPs processor?


89. In what year that the Intel introduces the 486DX4
clock-tripling microprocessor.
1994

90. In what year that Intel says its next microprocessor
will be called Pentium instead of 586.
1992

91. If the memory system overlaps, what is the
minimum number of overlapped bits other than 0?
1

92. How much memory does the 80486
microprocessor address?
46

93. How many instruction the 4004 can offered?
45

94. Controls the selection of increment and decrement
for the DI and/or SI registers during string
instruction.
Direction

95. It is an addressing mode that transfers a byte or
word from the source register or memory to the
destination register or memory location.
Register Addressing

96. It will move a byte or word between a memory
location and a register.
Direct Addressing

97. It will transfer a byte or word between a register
and the memory location addressed by a base and
an index register plus a displacement.
Base Relative Plus Index

98. It is syntax for multiplication of signed numbers.
|MUL

99. First commercial American computer was
designed and built by Eckert and Mauchly and
was used for opinion polls in 1952 presidential
elections.
UNIVAC 1

100. This was the earliest calculating machine in
history. Multiplication and division required
several interventions by the operator.
Wilhelm Shickards Calculating Clock

101. It is a section of memory that holds programs and
procedures used by the program.
Code Segment

102.