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Computer System Architecture. Test -1

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1. The bus used to connect the monitor to the CPU is ______

1. Rambus

2. PCI bus

3. SCSI bus

4. Memory bus

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2. The ALU makes use of _______ to store the intermediate results.

1. Stack

2. Registers

3. Heap

4. Accumulators

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3. The temporal aspect of the locality of reference means ________

1. None of these

2. That the recently executed instruction is temporarily not referenced

3. That the recently executed instruction will be executed soon again

4. That the recently executed instruction won’t be executed soon

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4. A source program is usually in _______

1. High-level language

2. Assembly language

3. Machine level language

4. Natural language

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5. VLSI stands for ___________

1. Very Large Scale Integration

2. Very Large Stand-alone Integration

3. None of these

4. Volatile Layer System Interface

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6. Which memory device is generally made of semiconductors?

1. Hard-disk

2. Cd disk

3. Floppy disk

4. RAM

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7. The effectiveness of the cache memory is based on the property of ________

1. None of these

2. Memory localisation

3. Locality of reference

4. Memory size

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8. The write-through procedure is used ________

1. To write onto the memory directly

2. To write and read from memory simultaneously

3. To write directly on the memory and the cache simultaneously

4. None of these

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9. The main virtue for using single Bus structure is ____________

1. None of these

2. Fast data transfers

3. Cost effective connectivity and speed

4. Cost effective connectivity and ease of attaching peripheral devices

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10. The duration between the read and the mfc signal is ______

1. Access time

2. Delay

3. Cycle time

4. Latency

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11. The logical addresses generated by the cpu are mapped onto physical memory by ____________

1. None of these

2. Relocation register

3. TLB

4. MMU

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12. The spatial aspect of the locality of reference means ________

1. That the instruction executed will be executed at a later time

2. That the recently executed won’t be executed again

3. That the recently executed instruction is executed again next

4. That the instruction in close proximity of the instruction executed will be executed in future

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13. ______ are used to overcome the difference in data transfer speeds of various devices.

1. Speed enhancing circuitory

2. Buffer registers

3. Multiple Buses

4. Bridge circuits

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14. 6. The minimum time delay between two successive memory read operations is ______

1. Latency

2. Cycle time

3. Delay

4. None of these

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15. The small extremely fast, RAM’s are called as _______

1. Heaps

2. Cache

3. Stacks

4. Accumulators

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16. The 8-bit encoding format used to store data in a computer is ______

1. EBCDIC

2. ANCI

3. USCII

4. ASCII

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17. __________ is the bottleneck, when it comes computer performance

1. Delay

2. Latency

3. Memory access time

4. Memory cycle time

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18. The correspondence between the main memory blocks and those in the cache is given by _________

1. Locale function

2. Mapping function

3. Assign function

4. Hash function

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19. The reason for the implementation of the cache memory is ________

1. To reduce the memory access and cycle time

2. All of these

3. The difference in speeds of operation of the processor and memory

4. To increase the internal memory of the system

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20. The algorithm to remove and place new contents into the cache is called _______

1. Renewal algorithm

2. Updation

3. Replacement algorithm

4. None of these

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21. The ______ format is usually used to store data.

1. Decimal

2. Octal

3. BCD

4. Hexadecimal

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22. MFC is used to _________

1. Signal to the device that the memory read operation is complete

2. Assign a device to perform the read operation

3. Signal the processor the memory operation is complete

4. Issue a read signal

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23. To extend the connectivity of the processor bus we use ________

1. Multiple bus

2. PCI bus

3. Controllers

4. SCSI bus

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24. ANSI stands for __________

1. American National Standards Institute

2. American National Standard Interface

3. American Network Standard Interfacing

4. American Network Security Interrupt

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25. IBM developed a bus standard for their line of computers ‘PC AT’ called _____

1. ISA

2. IB bus

3. None of these

4. M-bus

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Computer System Architecture. Test -1