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Which major development led to the production of microcomputers?
A
Magnetic disks
B
floppy disks
C
Logic gates
D
Integrated Circuits
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Which major development led to the production of microcomputers?
Magnetic disks
floppy disks
Logic gates
Integrated Circuits
Which is the fastest storage unit in a usual memory hierarchy?
Cache
Main memory
Hard disk
Register
Which cache miss does not occur in case of a fully associative cache ?
Conflict miss
Capacity miss
Compulsory miss
Cold start miss
Which Algorithm is better choice for pipelining?
Small Algorithm
Hash Algorithm
Merge-Sort Algorithm
Quick-Sort Algorithm
When Performing a looping operation, the instruction gets stored in the
Registers
Cache
System Heap
System stack
When a subroutine is called, the address of the instruction following the CALL instructions stored in/on the
stack pointer
accumulator
program counter
Stack
What is usually regarded as the von Neumann Bottleneck?
Processor/memory interface
Control unit
Arithmetic logical unit
Instruction set
What is the minimum number of flip-flops required in a counter to count 100 pulses?A
FiveB
sevenC
TenD
hundred
What is the control units function in the CPU?
To transfer data to primary storage
to store program instruction
to perform logic operations
to decode program instruction
What is stored in a Translation Lookaside Buffer?
System dumps
Physical addresses
rogram data
Operating system log files
What is meant by a dedicated computer?
which is used by one person only
which is assigned to one and only one task
which does one kind of software
which is meant for application software only
What is characteristic for the organization of a computer architecture?
Size
Dynamic behaviour
Static behaviour
Speed
Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B an execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster ?
A
B
Both take the same time
Insuffient information
To which class of systems does the von Neumann computer belong?
SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data)
MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data)
MISD (Multiple Instruction Single Data)
SISD (Single Instruction Single Data)
To provide increased memory capacity for operating system, the
virtual memory is created
cache memory is increased
memory for OS is reserved
Additional memory is installed
The word size of the microprocessor refers to
the amount of a information that can be stored in a byte
the amount of a information that can be stored in a cycle
The number of machine operations performed in a second
the maximum length of an English word that can be input to a computer
The ultimate goal of a compiler is to,
Reduce the clock cycles for a programming task.
Reduce the size of the object code.
Be versatile.
Be able to detect even the smallest of errors.
The output of a gate is low when at least one of its input is low . It is true forA
AND gateB
OR gateC
NAND gateD
NOR gate
The most common addressing techiniques employed by a CPU is
immediate
direct
indirect
all of the above
The maximum integer which can be stored on a 8 bit accumulator is
112
200
255
224