F-2,Block, Amity Campus

Sec-125, Nodia (UP)

India 201303

ASSIGNMENTS
PROGRAM:
SEMESTER-I
Subject Name
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Study COUNTRY
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Permanent Enrollment Number (PEN) :
Roll Number
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Student Name
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INSTRUCTIONS
a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets.
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment A
Assignment B
Assignment C

DETAILS
Five Subjective Questions
Three Subjective Questions + Case Study
45 Objective Questions

MARKS
10
10
10

b)
c)
d)
e)

Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks

All assignments are to be completed as typed in word/pdf.
All questions are required to be attempted.
All the three assignments are to be completed by due dates (specified
from time to time) and need to be submitted for evaluation by Amity
University.
f) The evaluated assignment marks will be made available within six
weeks. Thereafter, these will be destroyed at the end of each semester.
g) The students have to attached a scan signature in the form.
Signature
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_________________________________
Date
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( ) Tick mark in front of the assignments submitted
Assignment A
Assignment B
Assignment C

Introduction to IT and CS
Assignment A
Q1. Explain register transfer language..
Q2. What are peripheral devices list them.
Q3. Describe the circuit implementation of function xy+yz.
Q4.What is the difference between assembler , compiler and interpreter?
Q5.What are the different level of programming languages?

Assignment B
1. Explain memory hierarchy in brief.
2. What do you understand by parallel processing?
3. What is array processor and what is the role of attached array
processor?
There is no case study

Assignment C
(Multiple Choice Question)
Q1.
a)
b)
c)
d)

The worlds fastest and most advanced computer.

Main frames Computers
Super Computers
Personal Computers
Mini Computers

Q2.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Who is the father of computers.

Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
Konrad Zuse
John Atanasoff

Q3.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Who invented Pascalin.

Blaise Pascal
Charles Babbage
Konrad Zuse
John Atanasoff

Q4. Who invented ABC .

a) Blaise Pascal
b) Charles Babbage
c) Konrad Zuse
d) John Atanasoff
Q5. ___________earned the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern
computer"
a) Blaise Pascal
b) Charles Babbage
c) Konrad Zuse
d) John Atanasoff
Q6.
a)
b)
c)
d)

MARK series of computers was designed by

Konrad Zuse
John Atanasoff
Howard Aiken
Blaise Pascal

Q7.

The computers of ________generation replaced vacuum tubes with

transistors.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Q8.
a)
b)
c)
d)

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
EDVAC stand for
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator.
Electric Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
Electric Dependent Variable Automatic Calculator.

Q9. _____________type of computers recognizes data by counting

discrete signal of (0 0r 1), they are high speed programmable; they compute
values and stores results.
a) Digital computer
b) Analog Computer
c) Hybrid Computer
d) Super Computer
Q10.
a)
b)
c)
d)

In the decimal number system, there are ________ possible values.

2
10
8
16

Q11. In a positional notation system, the number base is called the

__________.
a) radix
b) radius
c) remix
d) base value
Q12.
a)
b)
c)
d)

The decimal number 163 would be represented in BCD as follows.

0001 0110 0011
0001 0011 0110
0001 0011 0001
0001 0001 0110

Q13. When a fixed precision binary number is used to hold only positive
values, it is said to be
a) unsigned
b) Signed
c) Positive
d) Negitave

Q14.
a)
b)
c)
d)

The binary number system is ________ numbering system.

positional notation
non-positional notation
signed
unsigned

Q15.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Convert 3710 to binary

100100
100101
101101
100110

Q16. Convert the binary number 01011011 to a hexadecimal number.

a)
B5
b)
5B
c)
4B
d)
B6

Q17. Sometimes called __________, memory consists of one or more chips

on the motherboard or some other circuit board in the computer.
a)
b)
c)
d)

primary storage
auxiliary storage
secondary storage
permanent storage

Q18. Examples of storage media are all of the following except

__________.
a) floppy disks
b) expansion cards
c) compact disks
d) tape
Q19. A __________, is a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on
the surface of a disk.
A) track
B) cluster
C) shutter
D) sector
Q20. A disks storage locations consist of pie-shaped sections, which break
the tracks into small arcs called __________.
A) backups
B) clusters
C) shutters
D) sectors
Q21. Hard disks provide for __________ access times than floppy disks.
A) lesser storage capacities and much slower
B) greater storage capacities but much slower
C) lesser storage capacities but much faster
D) greater storage capacities and much faster

Q22. Below are the major structural components of CPU except :

a)

Control Unit

b)

ALU

c)

Registers

d)

RAM

Q23. A hypothesis that states transistor densities in a single chip will

double every 18 months
a)

Mores Law

b)

CPUs Law

c)

Moores Law

d)

Transistors Law

Q24. RISC stands for

a)

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

b)

Redundant Instruction Set Computer

c)

Reduced Information Set Computer

d)

Reduced Instruction Set Chip

Q25. _______ is not an auxiliary memory.

a)

RAM

b)

Hard Disk

c)

Tapes

d)

DVD

Q26. _____________ is most commonly used to store system-level

programs that we want to have available to the computer at all times.
a)

ROM

b)

RAM

c)

Hard Disk

d)

CD

Q27. The purpose of ___________is to act as a buffer between the very

limited, very high-speed CPU registers and the relatively slower and much
larger main system memory.
a)
b)
c)
d)

cache memory
RAM
Virtual memory
ROM

Q28. When data are found in the cache, it is called a

a)
Cache miss
b)
Cache found
c)
Cache hit
d)
Cache data
Q29. By placing some parts that should be in memory inside your hard-disk
one can extend the memory capacity of a computer way beyond what is
installed; this is called ___________.
a)
virtual memory
b)
cache memory
c)
primary memory
d)
secondary memory
Q30 __________ is not an input device.
a)
MICR
b)
OMR
c)
Touch Screen
d)
Plotter

Q31
a)
b)
c)
d)

____________ is not an output device.

Projector
Printer
Plotter
Scanner

Q32.
a)
b)
c)
d)

All are Variants of the Mouse except.

Track ball
Track pad
integrated pointing device
Game pad

Q33 ____________ is a device that can read text or illustrations and

translate the information into a form the computer can use.
a)
Printer
b)
Plotter
c)
Scanner
d)
Reader
Q34. MICR stands for ________________.
a)
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
b)

Magnetic Ink Character Reader

c)

Mechanical Ink Character Recognition

d)

Mechanical Ink Character Reader

Q35. ___________ is not an operating system.

a) Unix
b) Linux
c) DOS
d) Internet Explorer

Q36. COBOL is ___________ language.

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

Q37. ____________converts source code into object code.

a)

Compiler

b)

Interpreter

c)

Translator

d)

Converter

Q38. ________________ is a software program that enables the computer

hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software.
a)

Application Software

b)

Translators

c)

Languages

d)

Operating System

Q39. An Operating systems that is capable of allowing multiple software

processes to be run at the same time is.
a)

Multiuser OS

b)

Multiprocessing

c)

Multitasking

d)

Multithreading

Q40. A____________ is a language that provides little or no abstraction

from a computer's instruction set architecture.
a)

low-level programming language

b)

High- level programming language

c)

Assembly level programming language

d)

Real fprogramming language