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CS501 QUIZ 1 SOLVED


1. is/are example(s) of synchronous communication.

a) Register to Register

b) Register to Memory

c) Memory to Memory

d) All of the given


2. Which of the following pins of the processor is designated for maskable interrupts?

a) NMI

b) MI

c) INTR

d) RINT


3. ET =  

a) CP x IC x T

b) CPI x IC x T

c) CPI / IC x T

d) CPI x IC/T

4. By which file extension does the FALCON-A assembler loads a FALCON-A assembly file?

a) .asmfa

b) .org

c) .exe

d) .src


5.   signal has output direction with respect to printer

 a) O<7…0>

b) STROBE#

c) INT#

d) ACKNLG#


6.   is said to occur when a 0 is received instead of a stop bit

a) Framing error

b) Party error

c) Block error

d) Over-run error


7. A component connected to the system bus and having control of it during a particular bus cycle is called  

a) Slave component

b) Master component

c) System bus

d) Buffer component


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8. The information about the interrupt vector is given in 8-bit from 0 to 7, which is translated to bit on the data bus

a) 16 to 32

b) 11 to 18

c) 0 to 7

d) 8 to 15


9. Every interrupt handler has an interrupt return (IRET) instruction, this instruction is an example of return

a) NEAR

b) FAR

c) SHORT

d) RELATIVE


10. Which I/O technique will be used by a sound card that may need to access data stored in the computer`s RAM?

a) Programmed I/O

b) Interrupt driven I/O

c) Direct memory access(DMA)

d) Polling


11. What should be the behavior of interrupt during critical section?

a) Must remain disable

b) Must remain enable

c) Depends on current situation

d) Only important interrupts be enabled


12. Identify the type of serial communication error condition in which “0” is received instead of stop bit(which is always a “1”)

a) Framing error

b) Parity error

c) Overrun error

d) Under run error


13. The Pentium does allow the use of some part of its accumulator register EAX

a) 8 bits

b) 16 bits

c) 32 bits

d) 64 bits


14. Where does the processor store the address of the first instruction of the ISR?

a) Interrupt vector

b) Interrupt request

c) Interrupt handler

d) All of the given options


15.   is the time needed by the CPU to recognize (not service) an interrupt request.

a) Interrupt latency

b) Response deadline

c) Timer delay

d) Throughput

16. At the start of the transfer operation in synchronous communication, the master activates the signal.

a) Read

b) Enable

c) Data

d) Acknowledge


17. Which is the last instruction of the ISR that is to be executed when the ISR terminates?

a) IRET

b) IRQ

c) INT

d) NMI


18. Which one of the following methods for resolving the priority makes use of individual bits of a priority encoder?

a) Daisy-Chaining Priority

b) Asynchronous Priority

c) Parallel Priority

d) Semi-synchronous Priority


19. Tri-state buffers are used for removing .

a) Instruction collision

b) bus collision

c) Instruction contention

d) bus contention


20. When a particular sector is found, the data is transferred to .

a) RAM

b) I/O module

c) Cache memory

d) Instruction registers


21. Interrupt driven I/O is better than .

a) Polling

b) Data forwarding

c) Stall

d) First In First Out 


22.Select the parts of a hard disk.

a) Header only

b) Data section and a trailer

c) Data section only

d) Header, data section and a trailer


23. In the little-endian format exchanging data between computer, the data transmitted by one will be received in a “swapped” form by the other.

a) Organized

b) Signals

c) Swapped

d) Arranged


24. In which technique does the hardware directly access host memory for reading or writing independent of CPU?

a) Direct Memory Access (DMA)

b) Programmed I/O

c) Interrupt driven I/O

d) Polling


25. Most parallel I/O ports used with peripheral devices are mapped on a range of .

a) Bus addresses

b) Direct memory access

c) Contiguous addresses

d) Cache


26. signal is used in printer with DB-25 interface to reset its controller.

a) #PE

b) #STROB

c) #INIT

d) #SLCT


27. Why DMA is faster than Programmer I/O technique because?

a) DMA transfers data directly using CPU

b) DMA transfers data directly without using CPU

c) DMA uses buffers with CPU

d) DMA uses interrupted driven I/O


28. In 8086/8088 processor, interrupt vector table is located at the memory location.

a) 0

b) 4

c) 256

d) 1024


29. When an I/O module has a capability of executing a specific set of instructions for specific I/O devices in the memory without the involvement of CPU is called  

a) Selector Channel

b) I/O Channel

c) I/O processors

d) Cycle Stealing

30. lets the user execute the program, one instruction at a time.

a) Single Step

b) Execute

c) Change PC

d) List File


31. Which one of the following is NOT a technique used when the CPU wants to exchange data with a peripheral device?

a) Direct Memory Access (DMA)

b) Interrupt driven I/O

c) Programmed I/O

d) Virtual Memory



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