Parallel Processing Questions and Answers | Online Quiz for Practice

46. The most common addressing techiniques employed by a CPU is

1. direct
2. indirect
3. all of the above
4. immediate

47. The output of a gate is low when at least one of its input is low . It is true forA

1. OR gateC
2. NAND gateD
3. NOR gate
4. AND gateB

48. The RISC processor has a more complicated design than CISC.

1. False Statement
2. True Statement

49. The Sun micro systems processors usually follow..................architecture.

1. ISA
2. ULTRA SPARC
3. RISC
4. CISC

50. The ultimate goal of a compiler is to,

1. Reduce the size of the object code.
2. Be versatile.
3. Be able to detect even the smallest of errors.
4. Reduce the clock cycles for a programming task.

51. The word size of the microprocessor refers to

1. the amount of a information that can be stored in a cycle
2. The number of machine operations performed in a second
3. the maximum length of an English word that can be input to a computer
4. the amount of a information that can be stored in a byte

52. To provide increased memory capacity for operating system, the

1. cache memory is increased
2. memory for OS is reserved
3. Additional memory is installed
4. virtual memory is created

53. To which class of systems does the von Neumann computer belong?

1. MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data)
2. MISD (Multiple Instruction Single Data)
3. SISD (Single Instruction Single Data)
4. SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data)

54. Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B an execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster ?

1. B
2. Both take the same time
3. Insuffient information
4. A

55. What is characteristic for the organization of a computer architecture?

1. Dynamic behaviour
2. Static behaviour
3. Speed
4. Size

56. What is meant by a dedicated computer?

1. which is assigned to one and only one task
2. which does one kind of software
3. which is meant for application software only
4. which is used by one person only

57. What is stored in a Translation Lookaside Buffer?

1. Physical addresses
2. rogram data
3. Operating system log files
4. System dumps

58. What is the control units function in the CPU?

1. to store program instruction
2. to perform logic operations
3. to decode program instruction
4. To transfer data to primary storage

59. What is the minimum number of flip-flops required in a counter to count 100 pulses?A

1. sevenC
2. TenD
3. hundred
4. FiveB

60. What is usually regarded as the von Neumann Bottleneck?

1. Control unit
2. Arithmetic logical unit
3. Instruction set
4. Processor/memory interface