Computer Architecture and Organization
Test your knowledge of computer architecture fundamentals including CPU design, memory systems, and storage operations
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?
- Index addressing mode
- Direct addressing mode
- Immediate addressing mode
- Program counter
- 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?
- Look through design
- Look aside design
- Direct mapping
- Associative mapping
- 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?
- Structural hazards
- Data hazards
- Control hazards
- Pipelining
- Fetch instruction
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
What is the time required to move the disk head to the required track called?
- Transfer time
- Rotational time
- Seek time
- Efficiency
- 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?
- Indirect addressing mode
- Direct addressing mode
- Register addressing mode
- I/O address register
- I/O buffer register