National University

of Computer & Emerging Sciences-Faisalabad

Date 28 August, 2017 Quiz No. 1 Total Marks: 10

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Question No. 1
What are the main components of CPU? Describe each in one line. 3

Control Unit – fetches and decodes instructions, control flow of information, control

operations of internal CPU components.

Arithmetic Unit – carries all arithmetic and logical operations

Registers – Store data nearest to CPU like PC and IR

Question No. 2
Which language is used by computer? What does it contain? 2

Computer uses machine language. It only contains 0s and 1s.

Question No. 3
Draw a diagram showing relationship of CPU, registers, cache, main memory and Secondary Storage.
2

Main Secondary
Cache Memory Storage
(HD)

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Question No. 4
What is an ASCII code? 1

ASCII code is actual machine code i.e. sequence of 1s and 0s behind each character. It

Is acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Question No. 5
What is difference between Assembler and Compiler? 2

Assembler convert assembly language into machine language while compiler converts

High level language i.e. C++, Java etc. to machine language.

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