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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

EDSAC stands for

a)

Electronic display storage automatic calculator

b)

Electronic delay storage automatic calculator

c)

Electronic delay storage automatic circuit

d)

Electronic display automatic circuit

2.

RAM is usually called

a)

Logical Memory

b)

Physical memory

c)

Conceptual memory

d)

Users Memory

3.

control unit determines the address of the next instruction be executed and loads it into the program counter.

a)

Instruction Interpretation

b)

Instruction regulation

c)

Instruction composition

d)

Instruction sequencing

4.

PSW stands for

a)

Process status word

b)

Program status word

c)

Program status width

d)

process status width

5.

State True or False.

1. “MOVE Y, A” is a two address instruction.

2. “MUL T, D, E” is a three address instruction.

a)

1-True, 2-False

b)

1-False, 2-True

c)

1-False, 2-False

d)

1-True, 2-True

6.

Tape units have ___ access.

a)

Sequential

b)

Random

c)

Associative

d)

Direct

7.

Generally ___ is used to hold the data temporarily.

a)

ROMs

b)

EPROMs

c)

Buffers

d)

Magnetic disks

8.

The following logic building block can be used to implement any combinational logic circuit

a)

Ex-Or gate

b)

Encoder

c)

Multiplexer

d)

Decoder

9.

The simplified form of the expression AB+ABC’ is

a)

AB

b)

A(B+C)’

c)

A(B+C)

d)

None of these

10.

A truth table of the n variables has … Minterms

a)

N2

b)

(n-1)2

c)

2n-1

d)

2n

11.

In a six-stage pipeline assuming that there are no branch instructions. If we want to execute 15 instructions. What is the time required to execute these instructions?

a)

15

b)

20

c)

21

d)

19

12.

Which type of data hazard is not possible?

a)

WAR

b)

WAW

c)

RAR

d)

RAW

13.

Dynamic pipeline allows

a)

.Only stream line connection

b)

function to evaluate

c)

Multiples functions to evaluate

d)

To perform fixed function

14.

The expression delayed load is used in the context of

a)

Processor-printer communication

b)

Memory-monitor communication

c)

Pipelining

d)

None of these

15.

The instruction execution flow in the pipeline processor is represented by 

a)

Flow chart

b)

Data flow diagram

c)

Time space diagram

d)

.Reservation table