Computer Architecture and Organization

Test your knowledge of computer architecture fundamentals including CPU design, memory systems, and storage operations

5 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which addressing mode, the effective address of the operand is generated by adding a constant value to the contents of a register?

  1. Index addressing mode
  2. Direct addressing mode
  3. Immediate addressing mode
  4. Program counter
  5. Instruction register
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following designs, both CPU and main memory are directly connected to the system bus?

  1. Look through design
  2. Look aside design
  3. Direct mapping
  4. Associative mapping
  5. Set associative mapping
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following arises from the pipelining of branches and other instructions that change the PC?

  1. Structural hazards
  2. Data hazards
  3. Control hazards
  4. Pipelining
  5. Fetch instruction
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the time required to move the disk head to the required track called?

  1. Transfer time
  2. Rotational time
  3. Seek time
  4. Efficiency
  5. Write through
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following, the effective address of the operand is the contents of a register or memory location, whose address in the instruction?

  1. Indirect addressing mode
  2. Direct addressing mode
  3. Register addressing mode
  4. I/O address register
  5. I/O buffer register