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Prerequisite Test: Fundamentals and Architectures

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is computer architecture?

a)

set of principles and methods that specify the functioning, organisation, and implementation of computer systems

b)

set of functions and methods that specify the functioning, organisation, and implementation of computer systems

c)

set of categories and methods that specify the functioning, organisation, and implementation of computer systems

d)

None of the mentioned

2.

What is computer organization?

a)

structure and behaviour of a computer system as observed by the developer

b)

structure and behaviour of a computer system as observed by the user

c)

structure of a computer system as observed by the developer

d)

All of the mentioned

3.

Which of the following is a type of computer architecture?

a)

All of the mentioned

b)

Harvard Architecture

c)

Microarchitecture

d)

Von-Neumann Architecture

4.

Which of the following is a type of architecture used in the computers nowadays?

a)

Microarchitecture

b)

Harvard Architecture

c)

Von-Neumann Architecture

d)

System Design

5.

Which of the following is the subcategories of computer architecture?

a)

Microarchitecture

b)

Instruction set architecture

c)

Systems design

d)

All of the mentioned

6.

Which of the architecture is power efficient?

a)

RISC

b)

ISA

c)

IANA

d)

CISC

7.

What does CSA stands for?

a)

Carry Save Addition

b)

None of the mentioned

c)

Computer Speed Addition

d)

Computer Service Architecture

8.

If an exception is raised and the succeeding instructions are executed completely, then the processor is said to have ______

a)

Exception handling

b)

Imprecise exceptions

c)

Generation word

d)

None of the mentioned

9.

To reduce the memory access time we generally make use of ______

a)

Higher capacity RAM’s

b)

SDRAM’s

c)

Cache’s

d)

Heaps

10.

The IA-32 system follows which of the following design?

a)

RISC

b)

SIMD

c)

None of the mentioned

d)

CISC

11.

Which of the following architecture is suitable for a wide range of data types?

a)

IA-32

b)

ARM

c)

68000

d)

ASUS firebird

12.

In IA-32 architecture along with the general flags, which of the following conditional flags are provided?

a)

All of the mentioned

b)

IOPL

c)

IF

d)

TF

13.

The VLIW architecture follows _____ approach to achieve parallelism.

a)

MISD

b)

SIMD

c)

SISD

d)

MIMD

14.

What does VLIW stands for?

a)

Very Long Instruction Width

b)

Very Long Instruction Word

c)

Very Long Instruction Width

d)

Very Large Instruction Word

15.

In CISC architecture most of the complex instructions are stored in _____

a)

CMOS

b)

Register

c)

Transistors

d)

Diodes

16.

Both the CISC and RISC architectures have been developed to reduce the ______

a)

All of the mentioned

b)

Cost

c)

Semantic gap

d)

Time delay

17.

________ are the different type/s of generating control signals.

a)

Micro-programmed

b)

Micro-instruction

c)

Hardwired

d)

Both Micro-programmed and Hardwired

18.

If the instruction Add R1, R2, R3 is executed in a system which is pipelined, then the value of S is (Where S is term of the Basic performance equation).

a)

~1

b)

2

c)

2

d)

~7

19.

The small extremely fast, RAM’s all called as ________

a)

Cache

b)

Stacks

c)

Accumulators

d)

Heaps

20.

For a given FINITE number of instructions to be executed, which architecture of the processor provides for a faster execution?

a)

All of the mentioned

b)

ANSA

c)

Super-scalar

d)

ISA

21.

What is the full form of ISA?

a)

International Standard Architecture

b)

Industry Standard Architecture

c)

International American Standard

d)

None of the mentioned

22.

Which of the following is the fullform of CISC?

a)

Complex Instruction Sequential Compilation

b)

Complex Instruction Set Computer

c)

Computer Integrated Sequential Compiler

d)

Complete Instruction Sequential Compilation

23.

The reason for the cells to lose their state over time is ________

a)

Use of Shift registers

b)

The lower voltage levels

c)

Usage of capacitors to store the charge

d)

None of the mentioned

24.

In order to read multiple bytes of a row at the same time, we make use of ______

a)

Memory extension

b)

Cache

c)

Shift register

d)

Latch

25.

The difference in the address and data connection between DRAM’s and SDRAM’s is ________

a)

The requirement of more address lines in SDRAM’s

b)

The usage of a buffer in SDRAM’s

c)

None of the mentioned

d)

The usage of more number of pins in SDRAM’s

26.

The chip can be disabled or cut off from an external connection using ______

a)

LOCK

b)

ACPT

c)

Chip select

d)

RESET

27.

The controller multiplexes the addresses after getting the _____ signal.

a)

RESET

b)

Request

c)

ACK

d)

INTR

28.

The data is transferred over the RAMBUS as ________

a)

Blocks

b)

Swing voltages

c)

Bits

d)

Packets

29.

The memory devices which are similar to EEPROM but differ in the cost effectiveness is ______

a)

CMOS

b)

Blue-ray devices

c)

Memory sticks

d)

Flash memory

30.

The flash memory modules designed to replace the functioning of a hard disk is ______

a)

DIMM

b)

Flash drives

c)

FIMM

d)

RIMM

31.

The drawback of building a large memory with DRAM is ______________

a)

Complex write algorithms

b)

Limited endurance cycles

c)

High power consumption

d)

The Slow speed of operation

32.

In a 4K-bit chip organization with 19 external connections, how many address lines are there if 8 data lines are present?

a)

8 address lines total

b)

9 address lines total

c)

12 address lines total

d)

10 address lines total

33.

What does ISO stand for in computing standards?

a)

International Software Organisation

b)

Industrial Software Organisation

c)

International Standards Organisation

d)

Industrial Standards Organisation

34.

Which bit indicates that a cache location has been updated and holds modified data?

a)

Update bit indicates update

b)

Dirty bit indicates update

c)

Reference bit indicates update

d)

Flag bit indicates update

35.

During a write operation, if the required block is absent from cache, which condition occurs?

a)

Write miss occurs

b)

Write delay occurs

c)

Write latency occurs

d)

Write hit occurs

36.

In a 16-bit system using direct mapping, the higher-order 5 bits are used for what field?

a)

Tag field selection

b)

Block field selection

c)

Word field selection

d)

Id field selection

37.

Which bit indicates whether a cache block was recently used?

a)

Control bit indicates recent use

b)

Dirty bit indicates recent use

c)

Reference bit indicates recent use

d)

Idle bit indicates recent use

38.

The fraction of successful memory accesses is called what metric?

a)

Miss rate metric

b)

Hit rate metric

c)

Success rate metric

d)

Access rate metric