CIS11 Quiz 3 Review SPR

What instruction can be used is in place of “JMP R7”?

• BR

• RET

• HALT

• JSR

Select the appropriate type of registers in the basic I/O devices that allows the CPU to determine if the status of a task.

• data registers

• flag registers

• notification registers

• control registers

What are the primary operations of the stack?

• add and remove items

• move and load items

• modify and combine items

• merge and un-merge items

What happens to the activation record in the run-time stack after the function is called in C programming?

• It is pushed onto the stack

• It is unchanged

• It is popped off the stack

• It creates a duplicate

If you use base address x31F0 to allocate a double-word for each element, what is the address of the 5th element of the array?

• x31F8

• x31FA

• x31FB

• x31F9

What occurs when a device sends a signal to CPU to notify that the new has arrived OR it is ready for next data during the I/O transfer control process?

• flags

• polls

• queues

• interrupts

What type of programming interface allows I/O devices operate at speeds that are different from the microprocessor?

• synchronous

• asynchronous

• parallel

• nonparallel

What occurs when an exception is generated from an unexpected outcome within the processor?

• external interrupts

• internal interrupts

• abnormal interrupts

• irregular interrupts

Which of the following options represents a special region of memory used as the stack for interrupt service routines?

• Supervisor Stack

• Top Stack

• Primary Stack

• Main Stack

If register 5, R5, is used as a pointer, what is the content inside R5?

• instructions for the data

• values of the data

• label of the data

• address of the data