Computer Organization_Daily Test 09

1. What is Assembly Language?

• A high-level programming language

• A low-level programming language

• An operating system

• A machine language

2. In assembly language, what does a mnemonic represent?

• A memory address

• An opcode

• A variable

• A high-level instruction

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of Assembly Language?

• Platform independence

• Human-readable mnemonics

• Automatic memory management

• Garbage collection

4. What is the primary purpose of Assembly Language?

• To directly communicate with hardware

• To create graphical user interfaces

• To perform complex mathematical computations

• To develop web applications

5. Which part of the computer system understands and executes assembly language programs?

• Compiler

• Operating System

• Central Processing Unit (CPU)

• Linker

6. In assembly language, what is a label used for?

• To store data

• To represent a mnemonic

• To define a memory address

• To perform arithmetic operations

7. What is the purpose of the assembler in the context of Assembly Language?

• To convert high-level language code to machine code

• To convert assembly language code to machine code

• To execute assembly language programs

• To manage memory allocation

8. Which of the following is a disadvantage of Assembly Language programming?

• Portability across different platforms

• Difficulty in understanding and writing code

• Automatic memory management

• High-level abstractions

9. What is an opcode in assembly language?

• A variable

• A mnemonic

• An operation code that represents a specific instruction

• A label

10. Which of the following represents an immediate operand in assembly language?

• A constant value directly specified in the instruction

• The result of a computation

• An indirect memory address

• A register value