Computer Organization
Covers fundamentals of computer organization including logic gates, sequential circuits (flip-flops, counters), memory organization (RAM, cache, DRAM), CPU components (ALU, registers, instruction design), I/O organization (DMA, buses), and number systems (binary, hexadecimal).
Questions
Which of the following is/are Universal Logic Gates?
- NAND
- NOT
- NOR
- Both (1) and (3)
How many flips flops are used to design the module-20 counter?
- 4-flips flop
- 5 flip-flop
- 20 flip- flop
- None of the above
How many minimum number of bits are used in representing range - 23 to + 31?
- 7
- 9
- 6
- 0
What is the basic circuit support by ECL?
- NAND logic
- NOR logic
- OR - NOR logic
- Both (2) and (3)
What will be the sum of two hexadecimal numbers; 9AA and 23D?
- BC7
- BE7
- BF7
- BA7
Which gate is used in CARRY operation of Half adder?
- OR gate
- NAND gate
- AND gate
- None of the above
Where is/are the fourth generation computers mainly used?
- VLSI
- LSI
- SSI
- Both (1) and (2)
How many 256 X 4 RAM chips are required to construct a 2 KB cache?
- 16
- 32
- 64
- None of the above
What is the Hamming Distance between 101101 and 110010?
- 4
- 5
- 6
- None of the above
Which memory is a semiconductor memory?
- SRAM
- ROM
- DRAM
- All of the above
Which of the following is the indicator of flags in status register in ALU?
- Carry
- Zero
- Sign
- All of the above
- Parity
What should be the instruction length to avoid wastage of memory?
- Word size
- Depends on multiple of character size
- Word size which is a multiple of character size
- All of the above
How can we implement DRAM cells?
- By using capacitors
- By using flags
- By using flip flops
- None of the above
How does DMA module communicate with CPU?
- By intrerrupts
- By priority set
- By cycle stealing
- All of the above
Which of the following is called a one bit asynchronous counter sequential circuit?
- Mapple counter
- Binary counter
- Ripple counter
- None of the above
Which of the following memories is installed between CPU and Main Memory?
- Ramdom Access Memory
- Virtual Memory
- Cache Memory
- Both (2) and (3)
Which program is used to place machine language program in a main memory in executable form?
- Loader
- Translator
- Interpreter
- None of the above
A sequence of micro instruction is also called as
- hardware
- freeware
- firmware
- None of these
Which of the following memories is the most expensive memory?
- DRAM
- SRAM
- ROM
- Both (1) and (2)
______________ are expanded during program execution.
- Signals
- Macros
- Micros
- None of the above
What do we call a combinational circuit connecting multiple inputs to a single output?
- Full adder
- Decoder
- Mutiplexer
- None of the above
A _______ is a shared communication which consists of one or a collection of lines.
- BUS
- Star
- Mesh
- None of the above
Which type of flip - flop racing problem does not exist?
- D flip fop
- Master slave J K flip flop
- S R fip flop
- None of the above
How much memory can be addressed with a 16 bit program counter?
- 256 K
- 64 K
- 32 K
- 128 K
What term is used for 'data lines that provide path for moving data between modules'?
- Address Bus
- System Bus
- Data Bus
- All of the above