UGRD-CS6204A Computer Architecture

and Organization
(Prelim Exam)
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Vacuum Tubes (1950s) - one bit on the size of a thumb

ANSWER: True

What is NMI?

ANSWER: Non-maskable interrupts

Blueberry released the first generation Macintosh, which was the first computer to come
with a graphical user interface(GUI) and a mouse.

ANSWER: False

The “conventional PCI was designed by Intel and introduced in ______.

ANSWER: 1992

Word Width is the number of bits in the internal data bus of a processor or it is the number
of bits a processor can process at a time

ANSWER: False
The first substantial computer was the giant ENIAC machine by John W. Mauchly and J.
Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.

ANSWER: True

Control signal transmit both commands and timing information between the modules

ANSWER: True

It is made to reduce the number of instructions per program, ignoring the number of cycles
per instruction.

ANSWER: CISC

Registers may be called as the Internal Storage device. Input data, Output data and various
other binary data is stored in this unit for further processing.

ANSWER: True

A level-triggered interrupt is requested by holding the interrupt signal at its particular (high
or low) active logic level.

ANSWER: True

In what year was the first microprocessor introduced?

ANSWER: 1971

The ________ reads in instructions and data

ANSWER: Processor

A microprocessor is an integrated circuit (IC) which incorporates core functions of a

computer’s central processing unit (CPU).

ANSWER: True
______________ stores the address of the next instruction to be executed.

ANSWER: Program counter

Microprocessors are very versatile, the same chip can be used for a number of applications
by simply changing the program (instructions stored in the memory).

ANSWER: True

Both PCI and PCI-X were superseded by PCI Express, which was introduced in?

ANSWER: 2004

Used to control the access to and the use of the data and address system

ANSWER: False

What was the first substantial computer?

ANSWER: giant ENIAC machine

It generates the necessary control signals for various data that are fed to microprocessors.

ANSWER: Control unit

The PCI connector is defined as having how many contacts each side of the edge
connector?

ANSWER: 62

PCI is a hardware bus used for adding internal components to a laptop.

ANSWER: False
Processors typically have an internal interrupt mask register which allows selective enabling
and disabling of hardware interrupts.

ANSWER: True

____________ is a set of conductors intended to transmit data, address or control information

to different elements in a microprocessor.

ANSWER: Bus

Microprocessors are very versatile, the same chip can be used for a number of applications
by simply changing the program (instructions stored in the memory).

ANSWER: True

A software interrupt is requested by the processor itself upon executing particular

instructions or when certain conditions are met.

ANSWER: True

Cache memory is a random access memory that is integrated into the hard disk drive.

ANSWER: False

All the instructions that are fetched from memory are located in the Instruction register.

ANSWER: True

The hard disk drive forms the brain of the Central Processing Unit

ANSWER: False

Processor to memory: The processor writes a unit of data to memory.

ANSWER: True
This is an advantage of a microprocessor.

ANSWER: All of the above

Typically, a memory module will consist of M words of equal length.

ANSWER: False

RISC is a type of microprocessor architecture which uses small, general purpose and highly
optimized instruction set rather than more specialized set of instructions found in others.

ANSWER: True

Control unit as the name specifies controls the flow of data and signals in the
microprocessor

ANSWER: True

Then during the year 1976, Intel introduced 8085 processors which is nothing but an update
of 8080 processors.8080 processors are updated by adding two Enable/Disable Instructions,
Three added interrupt pins and serial I/O pins.

ANSWER: True

Microprocessors are very reliable, failure rate is very less as semiconductor technology is
used.

ANSWER: True

Intel’s 8086 was the first microprocessor to make it to Home computers.

ANSWER: False

What does PCI stands for?

ANSWER: Peripheral Component Interconnect

In the 1960's two devices would be invented that would improve the computer field and set
in motion the beginning of the computer revolution.

ANSWER: False

_________ may be called as the Internal Storage device.

ANSWER: Register

It is requested by holding the interrupt signal at its particular (high or low) active logic level.

ANSWER: Level-triggered interrupt

The ___________ reads in instructions and data, writes out data after processing, and uses
control signals to control the overall operation of the system.

ANSWER: Processor

An edge-triggered interrupt is an interrupt signaled by a level transition on the interrupt

line, either a falling edge (high to low) or a rising edge (low to high).

ANSWER: True

Interrupts may be implemented in hardware as a distinct component with control lines, or

they may be integrated into the memory subsystem.

ANSWER: True

The 1960s saw large mainframe computers become much more common in large industries
and with the US military and space program. 

ANSWER: True

It is the occurrence of a false interrupt request signal.

ANSWER: Spurious interrupt

Examples of microprocessor

ANSWER: Intel Core i7

A bus consists of multiple pathways or lines

ANSWER: Bus interconnection

A bus is a communication pathway connecting two or more devices

ANSWER: True

The first microprocessor was introduced in the year 1972.

ANSWER: True

These are the 3 functional groups of a bus interconnection except?

ANSWER: Network Line

It can be used as true cache.

ANSWER: CDRAM

As logic density has increased, it has become possible to have a cache on the same chip as
the processor: the on-chip cache

ANSWER: Multilevel caches

Production of dumps, traces, error messages, and other debugging and ____________

ANSWER: Error detecting aids

Magnetic tape was first used to record computer data in _____ on the Eckert-Mauchly
UNIVAC I.

ANSWER: 1951
What does EPROM stand for?

ANSWER: Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

These are examples of an Operating System, except:

ANSWER: Mac (WRONG) Try / None

The operand is treated as a two's complement integer, meaning that the most significant bit
is a "sign" bit and is preserved.
ANSWER: Arithmetic shift

It was introduced in 1977.

ANSWER: TRS-80

In _______, a bit of data is stored using the state of a six-transistor memory cell.

ANSWER: SRAM

______ stores a bit of data using a transistor and capacitor pair.

ANSWER: DRAM

A type of flash memory

ANSWER: NOR-flash

Electronic data storage mediums that we can utilize

ANSWER: Magnetic & Optical

__________ is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically
used to store working data and machine code

ANSWER: Random Access Memory

It is a digital electronic data storage device.

ANSWER: Semiconductor Memories

This is used in many older computer BIOS chips, is non-volatile storage that can be erased and
programmed several times and allows only one location at a time to be written or erased.

ANSWER: EEPROM

In many modern personal computers, the RAM comes in an easily upgraded form of modules
called memory modules or DRAM modules about the size of a few sticks of _________

ANSWER: Chewing gum

___________ is the fundamental building block of computer memory.

ANSWER: Memory Cell

Keeps track of information, location, uses, status etc. The collective facilities are often known as
________

ANSWER: File System

It is one of the most important elements in a computer system.

ANSWER: Computer memory

This programmed with the use of very high voltages and exposure to apporoximately  20
minutes of intense UV light.

ANSWER: EPROM

It is made up of memory cell where each cell is composed of one  transistor.

ANSWER: DRAM
_______ refers to recording data using light.

ANSWER: Optical storage

The memory ________ is the fundamental building block of computer memory.

ANSWER: cell

The memory characterised on the basis of two key factors; _______ and _____________.

ANSWER: CAPACITY AND ACCESS TIME

A computer _________ is one of the primary input devices used with a computer.

ANSWER: Keyboard

ALU stands for?

ANSWER: Arithmetic and Logic Unit

__________ is saved in a known place.

ANSWER: Program counter

Which of the following is not belong to non-volatile memory?

ANSWER: NONE OF THESE

 Which of the following is not categorised in physical characteristics of a memory.

ANSWER: METAL

Term RAM refers solely to ________________

ANSWER: solid-state memory devices

It includes most types of ROM and a type of flash memory called ___________.

ANSWER: NOR-FLASH

It used to detect the error(s) present in the received data (bit stream).

ANSWER: error detection codes

Entire data blocks are access and transferred out on a high-speed bus-like interface

ANSWER: RDRAM

Both static and dynamic RAM are considered _____________.

ANSWER: volatile

This is in contrast to a floating-point unit (FPU), which operates on floating point numbers.

ANSWER: Arithmetic Logic Unit

It has multiple-bank internal architecture that improves opportunities for on-chip parallelism.
Generally, it uses dual data banks internally. It starts access in one bank then next, and then
receives data from first then second.

ANSWER: SDRAM

It performs best when it is transferring large blocks of data serially, such as for applications like
word processing, spreadsheets and multimedia.

ANSWER: SDRAM

______ can handle CPU, direct memory access (DMA) and video refresh at the same time by
utilizing a high-speed video interface.

ANSWER: CDRAM
______ are used to correct the error(s) present in the received data (bit stream) so that, we will
get the original data.

ANSWER: Error correction codes

The value of even parity bit should be zero, if even number of ones present in the binary code.

ANSWER: Even Parity Code

It is useful for both detection and correction of error present in the received data.

ANSWER: Hamming code

It is easy to include (append) one parity bit either to the left of MSB or to the right of LSB of
original bit stream.

ANSWER: Parity Code

These are used to ______ the error(s) present in the received data (bit stream). These codes
contain some bit(s), which are included (appended) to the original bit stream.

ANSWER: Detect

. DVD is also known as ________________.

ANSWER: SUPER DENSITY DISK

I t  is designed to store computer data in the form of text and graphics, as well as hi-fi stereo
sound.

ANSWER: CD-ROM
It is used to designate the source or destination of the data on the data bus

ANSWER: Address line

 It is a temporary physical storage  used to hold data during execution of process from one
place to one another.

ANSWER: CACHE MEMORY (WRONG) Try / AUXILIARY MEMORY (WRONG) Try /

VIRTUAL MEMORY

The carry bit and operand are collectively treated as a circular buffer of bits.

ANSWER: Rotate through carry

Typical control lines include:

ANSWER: None of the above

_________ queues are not an independent scheduling algorithm. They make use of other existing
algorithms to group and schedule jobs with common characteristics.

ANSWER: Multiple level

Most external hard drives connect to a computer through a ______

ANSWER: USB port

It is a processor with direct memory access capability. In this, the computer system is divided
into a memory unit and number of processors.

ANSWER: I/O Processors

1 TB (Terabyte) is equal to?

ANSWER: 1024 Gigabyte

The operand is treated as a circular buffer of bits so its least and most significant bits are
effectively adjacent.

ANSWER: Rotate

These are the other important activities that an operating system performs, except:

ANSWER: Print

It is made up of memory cell where each cell is composed of one  transistor.

ANSWER: RANDON ACCESS MEMORY (WRONG) Try / MEMORY (WRONG) Try /

CACHE MEMORY

The ________ of  a tape is the surface that can be magnetically manipulate by a tape head

ANSWER: Oxide side

Information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10 bytes

ANSWER: 1 Petabyte (WRONG) Try / 1,000,000,000,000,000 Petabyte

It is a compromise that exhibits the strengths of both the direct and associative approaches
while reducing their disadvantages.

ANSWER: Set-associative mapping

It used to detect the error(s) present in the received data(bit stream).

ANSWER: error detection codes

4 bits make one 

ANSWER: nibble

_______ are still used in many computers for situations where data must be read and written
quickly.

ANSWER: Flash Drive (WRONG) Try / Hard Drive

Approximately a trillion (10 ) bytes.

ANSWER: Terabyte

It stands for a Binary Digit. Which is either 0 or 1.

ANSWER: bit

Who was invented the magnetic tape for the purpose of recording?

ANSWER: Fritz Pfluemer

Which is not belongs to optical storage devices?

ANSWER: none of these

It is the simplest technique of mapping.

ANSWER: Direct mapping

It stands for binary digit.

ANSWER: None
A group of 8 bits

ANSWER: byte

Term RAM refers solely  to ________________

ANSWER: solid-state memory devices

It is from the external memory sources is done the same way as copying data to and from
the existing hard drive.

ANSWER: copying data

Information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10 bytes.

ANSWER: 1 Zettabyte (WRONG) Try / 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Zettabyte

A disk or solid state drive (SSD) subsystem that increases performance or provides fault
tolerance or both.

ANSWER: Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Accronym  for RAID.

ANSWER: Redundant Array of Independent Disks

If you have 4 bits, you make one ______

ANSWER: Nibble