Computer Architecture & Engineering Quiz # 1

What will replace the "?" sign in the given characteristic table of SR f‌lip-f‌lop, if O(t+1) is the binary state of output after the occurrence of a clock transition (referred to as next state)?

Always 0

lndeterminate(could be 0 or 1)
How many characters per second (CPS) can be transmitted over a 1000-baud line with a character code of 8 bits. in the synchronous serial transmission mode?

150 cps

109 cps

125 cps

120 cps
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Use the table in the given image to find the 9-bit microoperation field for the microoperation given on top of the table.

111001000

000111001

111000001

110000111
Using the given table, convert the following symbolic micro operations to binary.
SHL, DRTAR, WRITE

100101111

011101111

011101111

Cannot be converted.
What is the Excess-3 Gray code for the given number?

111011111010

101011101111

111011111010

101011111110
Suppose the content of a 4obit register is 1010. The register is shifted five times to the right with serial input being 10110. What is the content of the register after five shifts?

0101

0010

0110

0111
What will be the output of the given logic gate?

1

2

3

4
Suppose you have to multiply two 20 x 20 matrices using vector processor. To calculate the product matrix. how many multiply-add operations are required?

8000

6000

4000

2000
What will be the sum of the following floating-point number? 0.6374980 x102 and 0.1580000 x 10 -1

0.7963400 x 102

0.6376560 x 10-1

0.6376560 x 102

0.7963400 x10-1
Which of the following is the correct sum of product form for the given K-Map (Karnaugh map)?

ABC

(~A)D

AD

(“A1081)
Which of the following is the component of a CPU (Central Processing Unit)?

Data Bus

Keyboard

Mouse

TouchPad
A memory containing 32K words will require different addresses.

32,380

32,384

32,768

32,385
A/An instruction is recognized by the operation code 111 with a 1 in the first bit of instruction.

Memory « reference

Input - output

Register — reference
State whether the following statement is true or false.
A micro-program sequencer executes a micro-instruction.

True

False
How many clock cycles are required to process 100 tasks in a six-segment pipeline?

600 clock cycles

106 clock cycles

105 clock cycles

601 clock cycles
The speed of a CPU is measured in .

revolutions per minute

hertz

kbps

mbps
State whether the following statement is true or false.
Physical memory is divided into several smaller, equal-sized parts called pages.

True

False
Which of the following memory reference instructions has the symbolic description given in the image:
where PC = program counter and AR = address register?

LDA (Load Accumulator)

BSA (Branch and Save Return Address)

STA (Store Accumulator)

BUN (Branch Unconditionally)
Convert the following arithmetic expression from inf‌ix to RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)

ABCDE+‘+

ABCDEFG+'+

ABCDE+‘+'FG'/
Which of the following options is the logic diagram of half-adder?

1

2

3

4
A multiprocessor system with a common shared memory is called a multiprocessor system.

distributed memory

tightly coupled

loosely coupled
TTL in digital circuits stands for

Transistor-transistor logic

Transmission-transistor logic

Transistor-transmission logic

Transistor-transformlogic
Is the following register transfer statement correct?

Yes

No
Which of the following options allows a direct memory access (DMA) controller to transfer data words one at a time?

Bus grant

Bus request

Burst mode

Cycle stealing mode
In which of the following methods, only the cache location is updated during a write operation?

Write-back

Write-through

Both a and b
Compute the 2's complement of 001 using 6 bit word.

110

111

111110

111111
Which of the following options is used in stack organized architecture?

Three-address instructions

Two-address instructions

One-address instructions

Zero-address instructions
Assume a small crossbar switch network is used to connect two processors and f‌ive memory modules.
How many total switches (switch points) should be there?

Two

Four

Six

Eight

Ten
In a computer, is a non-volatile memory

Static RAM

Dynamic RAM

EEPROM

Cache
If an instruction is read from memory then compute the effective address in relative address mode
when the content of the Program counter is 824 and the address part of the instruction contains 24.

848

849

850

851

Quiz:	Computer Architecture & Engineering Quiz # 1
Subject:	Basic Computer Architecture Engineering
Total Questions:	30 MCQs
Time:	30 Minutes

Computer Architecture & Engineering Quiz # 1

What will replace the "?" sign in the given characteristic table of SR f‌lip-f‌lop, if O(t+1) is the binary state of output after the occurrence of a clock transition (referred to as next state)?

How many characters per second (CPS) can be transmitted over a 1000-baud line with a character code of 8 bits. in the synchronous serial transmission mode?

Computer Architecture & EngineeringUse the table in the given image to find the 9-bit microoperation field for the microoperation given on top of the table.

Using the given table, convert the following symbolic micro operations to binary.SHL, DRTAR, WRITE

What is the Excess-3 Gray code for the given number?

Suppose the content of a 4obit register is 1010. The register is shifted five times to the right with serial input being 10110. What is the content of the register after five shifts?

What will be the output of the given logic gate?

Suppose you have to multiply two 20 x 20 matrices using vector processor. To calculate the product matrix. how many multiply-add operations are required?

What will be the sum of the following floating-point number? 0.6374980 x102 and 0.1580000 x 10 -1

Which of the following is the correct sum of product form for the given K-Map (Karnaugh map)?

Which of the following is the component of a CPU (Central Processing Unit)?

A memory containing 32K words will require different addresses.

A/An instruction is recognized by the operation code 111 with a 1 in the first bit of instruction.

State whether the following statement is true or false.A micro-program sequencer executes a micro-instruction.

How many clock cycles are required to process 100 tasks in a six-segment pipeline?

The speed of a CPU is measured in .

State whether the following statement is true or false.Physical memory is divided into several smaller, equal-sized parts called pages.

Which of the following memory reference instructions has the symbolic description given in the image:where PC = program counter and AR = address register?

Convert the following arithmetic expression from inf‌ix to RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)

Which of the following options is the logic diagram of half-adder?

A multiprocessor system with a common shared memory is called a multiprocessor system.

TTL in digital circuits stands for

Is the following register transfer statement correct?

Which of the following options allows a direct memory access (DMA) controller to transfer data words one at a time?

In which of the following methods, only the cache location is updated during a write operation?

Compute the 2's complement of 001 using 6 bit word.

Which of the following options is used in stack organized architecture?

Assume a small crossbar switch network is used to connect two processors and f‌ive memory modules.How many total switches (switch points) should be there?

In a computer, is a non-volatile memory

If an instruction is read from memory then compute the effective address in relative address modewhen the content of the Program counter is 824 and the address part of the instruction contains 24.

Computer Architecture & Engineering
Use the table in the given image to find the 9-bit microoperation field for the microoperation given on top of the table.

Using the given table, convert the following symbolic micro operations to binary.
SHL, DRTAR, WRITE

State whether the following statement is true or false.
A micro-program sequencer executes a micro-instruction.

State whether the following statement is true or false.
Physical memory is divided into several smaller, equal-sized parts called pages.

Which of the following memory reference instructions has the symbolic description given in the image:
where PC = program counter and AR = address register?

Assume a small crossbar switch network is used to connect two processors and f‌ive memory modules.
How many total switches (switch points) should be there?

If an instruction is read from memory then compute the effective address in relative address mode
when the content of the Program counter is 824 and the address part of the instruction contains 24.