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WorksheetsComputer Architecture Quiz
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which of the following is not considered a peripheral device?
CPU
Keyboard
Monitor
All of the above
Which of the following computer memory is fastest?
Register
Hard disk
RAM
None of the above
Which of the following operations is/are performed by the ALU?
Data manipulation
Exponential
Square root
All of the above
Which of the following memory of the computer is used to speed up the computer processing?
Cache memory
RAM
ROM
none of the above
Computer address bus is -
Multidirectional
Bidirectional
Unidirectional
None of the above
Which of the following circuit is used to store one bit of data?
Flip Flop
Decoder
Encoder
Register
Which of the following is a way in which the components of a computer are connected to each other?
Computer parts
Computer architecture
Computer hardware
None of the above
Subtraction in computers is carried out by –
1's complement
2's complement
3's complement
9's complement
Where is the document temporarily stored during working on a document on PC?
ROM
CPU
RAM
Flash memory
Where is the decoded instruction stored?
Registers
MDR
PC
IR
In which of the following term the performance of cache memory is measured?
Chat ratio
Hit ratio
Copy ratio
Data ratio
Which of the following computer register collects the result of computation?
Accumulator
Instruction Pointer
Storage register
None of the above
The drawback of building a large memory with DRAM is
The large cost factor
The inefficient memory organization
The Slow speed of operation
All of the mentioned
The fastest data access is provided using
Caches
DRAM’s
SRAM’s
Registers
The memory blocks are mapped on to the cache with the help of
Hash functions
Vectors
Mapping functions
None of the mentioned
The next level of memory hierarchy after the L2 cache is
Secondary storage
TLB
Main memory
Register
During a write operation if the required block is not present in the cache then occurs.
Write latency
Write hic
Write delay
Write miss
The method of mapping the consecutive memory blocks to consecutive cache blocks is called
Set associative
Associative
Direct
Indirect
The unit which acts as an intermediate agent between memory and backing store to reduce process time is
TLB’s
Registers
Page tables
Cache
The situation wherein the data of operands are not available is called
Data hazard
Stock
Deadlock
Structural hazard
The addressing mode/s, which uses the PC instead of a general purpose register is
Indexed with offset
Relative
Direct
Both Indexed with offset and direct
The addressing mode, where you directly specify the operand value is
Immediate
Direct
Definite
Relative
The sign followed by the string of digits is called as
Significant
Determinant
Mantissa
Exponent
If the decimal point is placed to the right of the first significant digit, then the number is called
Orthogonal
Normalized
Determinate
None of the mentioned
In double precision format, the size of the mantissa is
32 bit
52 bit
64 bit
72 bit
The periods of time when the unit is idle is called as
Stalls
Bubbles
Hazards
Both Stalls and Bubbles
The contention for the usage of a hardware device is called
Structural hazard
Stalk
Deadlock
None of the mentioned
The stalling of the processor due to the unavailability of the instructions is called as
Control hazard
structural hazard
Input hazard
None of the mentioned
When using the Big Endian assignment to store a number, the sign bit of the number is stored in
The higher order byte of the word
The lower order byte of the word
Can’t say
None of the mentioned
The two phases of executing an instruction are
Instruction decoding and storage
Instruction fetch and instruction execution
Instruction execution and storage
Instruction fetch and Instruction processing
When using Branching, the usual sequencing of the PC is altered. A new instruction is loaded which is called as
Branch target
Loop target
Forward target
Jump instruction
The small extremely fast RAM is called as
Cache
Heaps
Accumulators
Stacks
The main memory in a personal computer is made of
Static RAM
Both c and d
Cache memory
Dynamic RAM
______ are used to overcome the difference in data transfer speeds of various devices.
Speed enhancing circuitry
Bridge circuits
Multiple Buses
Buffer registers
The smallest entity of memory is called _______
Block
Instance
Unit
Which of the following is a group of bits that tells the computer to perform a particular operation?
Accumulator
Register
Instruction code
None of the above
SIMD represents an organization that ______________.
refers to a computer system capable of processing several programs at the same time.
represents organization of single computer containing a control unit, processor unit and a memory unit.
includes many processing units under the supervision of a common control unit
none of the above.
What characteristic of RAM memory makes it not suitable for permanent storage?
too slow
unreliable
it is volatile
too bulky
Which of the following is lowest in memory hierarchy?
Cache memory
Secondary memory
Registers
RAM
Cache memory acts between
CPU and RAM
RAM and ROM
CPU and Hard Disk
None of these
