The best mode of connection between devices which need to send or receive large amounts of data over a short distance is . . . . . . . .
A. BUS
B. Serial port
C. Parallel port
D. Isochronous port
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To overcome the slow operating speeds of the secondary memory we make use of faster flash drives.
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To overcome the lag in the operating speeds of the I/O device and the processor we use . . . . . . . .
A. Buffer spaces
B. Status flags
C. Interrupt signals
D. Exceptions
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The CISC stands for . . . . . . . .
A. Computer Instruction Set Compliment
B. Complete Instruction Set Compliment
C. Computer Indexed Set Components
D. Complex Instruction set computer
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The primary function of the BUS is . . . . . . . .
A. To connect the various devices to the cpu
B. To provide a path for communication between the processor and other devices
C. To facilitate data transfer between various devices
D. All of the mentioned
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The signal used to indicate that the slave is ready is . . . . . . . .
A. SLRY#
B. TRDY#
C. DSDY#
D. None of the mentioned
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As the instructions can deal with variable size operands we use . . . . . . . . to resolve this.
A. Delimiter
B. Size indicator mnemonic
C. Special assemblers
D. None of the mentioned
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The 8-bit encoding format used to store data in a computer is . . . . . . . .
A. ASCII
B. EBCDIC
C. ANCI
D. USCII
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A source program is usually in . . . . . . . .
A. Assembly language
B. Machine level language
C. High-level language
D. Natural language
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The read and write operations usually start at . . . . . . . . of the sector.
A. Center
B. Middle
C. From the last used point
D. Boundaries
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The MSG signal is used . . . . . . . .
A. To send a message to the target
B. To receive a message from the mailbox
C. To tell that the information being sent is a message
D. None of the mentioned
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In direct mapping the presence of the block in memory is checked with the help of block field.
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The directly mapped cache no replacement algorithm is required.
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The directive used to perform initialization before the execution of the code is . . . . . . . .
A. Reserve
B. Store
C. Dataword
D. EQU
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When the process is returned after an interrupt service . . . . . . . . should be loaded again.
i) Register contents
ii) Condition codes
iii) Stack contents
iv) Return addresses
A. i, iv
B. ii, iii and iv
C. iii, iv
D. i, ii
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The PCI follows a set of standards primarily used in . . . . . . . . PC's.
A. Intel
B. Motorola
C. IBM
D. SUN
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The processor must take into account the delay in accessing the memory location, such memories are called . . . . . . . .
A. Delay integrated
B. Asynchronous memories
C. Synchronous memories
D. Isochronous memories
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The carry generation function: ci + 1 = yici + xici + xiyi, is implemented in . . . . . . . .
A. Half adders
B. Full adders
C. Ripple adders
D. Fast adders
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An 24 bit address generates an address space of . . . . . . . . locations.
A. 1024
B. 4096
C. 248
D. 16,777,216
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In super-scalar mode, all the similar instructions are grouped and executed together.
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