1 - In the instruction ADD A, B, the answer gets stored in ___________
A
2 - LRU stands for ___________
Least Recently Used
3 - The magnetic tape is generally a plastic ribbon coated with ______
Chromium dioxide
4 - The memory implemented using the semiconductor chips is _________
Main
5 - The number of clock cycles per second is referred as ______
Clock speed
6 - The number of clock cycles per second is referred as ________
Clock speed
7 - The number of sectors per track on a magnetic disk ________
8 or more
8 - The storage capacity of an optical disk is given by:
Number of sectors * number of bytes per sector
9 - What does USB stand for?
Universal Serial Bus
10 - Word length of a personal computer ___________
8 bits
11 - ____________ storage is a system where a robotic arm will connect or disconnect off-line mass storage media according to the computer operating system demands.
Tertiary
12 - ________________ is also called auxiliary storage.
secondary memory
13 - ________________ is used for writing/reading of data to/from a magnetic ribbon.
Magnetic tape
14 - __________________ is the amount of data that can be stored on a given length of tape.
Data recording density
15 - A ____________ disk consists of a circular disk, which is coated with a thin metal or some other material that is highly reflective.
optical
16 - A circuitry that processes that responds to and processes the basic instructions that are required to drive a computer system is ________
Processor
17 - A device similar to a flash drive ______________
Memory card
18 - A plug and play storage device that simply plugs in the port of a computer is __________
Flash drive
19 - A set of hard disk drives with a controller mounted in a single box, forming a single large storage unit is ____________
Disk array
20 - Any electronic holding place where data can be stored and retrieved later whenever required is ____________
memory
21 - Bernoulli disks are a type of magnetic floppy disks.
FALSE
22 - Cache Memory is implemented using the DRAM chips.
FALSE
23 - Cache memory is the onboard storage.
TRUE
24 - Causing the CPU to step through a series of micro operations is called _________
Sequencing
25 - CISC stands for ___________
Complex Instruction Set Computer
26 - CISC stands for ____________
Complex Instruction Set Computer
27 - CLV stands for, in terms of rotation of the optical disk ___
Concurrent lines value
28 - Computer has a built-in system clock that emits millions of regularly spaced electric pulses per _____ called clock cycles.
second
29 - Computer has a built-in system clock that emits millions of regularly spaced electric pulses per _____ called clock cycles.
second
30 - CPU has built-in ability to execute a particular set of machine instructions, called as __________
Instruction Set
31 - Disk access time does not depends on which of the following factors __________
Arrival rate
32 - Generally there are __________bytes in a sector.
512
33 - HLDA stands for _______
Hold Acknowledgement
34 - If M denotes the number of memory locations and N denotes the word size, then an expression that denotes the storage capacity is ______________
M*N
35 - In ____________ mapping, the data can be mapped anywhere in the Cache Memory.
Associative
36 - It takes one clock cycle to perform a basic operation.
TRUE
37 - It takes one clock cycle to perform a basic operation.
TRUE
38 - Magnetic disk is a sequential access device.
FALSE
39 - Magnetic tape is a type of _________ access device.
Sequential
40 - MAR stands for ___________
Memory address register
41 - MAR stands for ___________
Memory address register
42 - New CPU whose instruction set includes the instruction set of its predecessor CPU is said to be ___________ with its predecessor.
backward compatible
43 - Opcode indicates the operations to be performed.
TRUE
44 - Optical disks are proved to be a promising random access medium for high capacity secondary storage.
TRUE
45 - Processor which is complex and expensive to produce _________
CISC
46 - Processor which is complex and expensive to produce is ________
CISC
47 - Rotation of the disk must vary __________ with the radius of the disk.
inversely
48 - Secondary storage virtually has an unlimited capacity because the cost per bit is very low.
TRUE
49 - Size of the ________ memory mainly depends on the size of the address bus.
Main
50 - Tape drive is connected to and controlled by _______
Tape controller
51 - The _________ holds the contents of the accessed memory word.
MBR
52 - The architecture that uses a tighter coupling between the compiler and the processor is ____________
EPIC
53 - The architecture that uses a tighter coupling between the compiler and the processor.
EPIC
54 - The disks surface is divided into a number of invisible concentric circles called:
Tracks
55 - The dots on the magnetic tape represent ________
Binary digits
56 - The functions of execution and sequencing are performed by using ______________
Control Signals
57 - The I/O devices are sometimes called the peripheral devices because they surround the CPU and memory of the computer system.
TRUE
58 - The interval between the instant a computer makes a request for the transfer of data from a disk system to the primary storage and the instance this operation is completed is called _________
Disk access time
59 - The length of a register is called _______
word size
60 - The number of characters/second that can be transmitted to the memory from the tape is denoted by the term.
Data transfer rate
61 - The number of sign bits in a 32-bit IEEE format __________
1
62 - The number of sign bits in a 32-bit IEEE format is ____
1
63 - The operation that does not involves clock cycles is _________
Installation of a device
64 - The operation that does not involves clock cycles is ____________
Installation of a device
65 - The portion of the processor which contains the hardware required to fetch the operations is _______
Datapath
66 - The process in which a file is partitioned into smaller parts and different parts are stored in different disks is ____________
Stripping
67 - The range of access times of optical disks is generally ______
100 to 300 milliseconds
68 - The technology used in optical disks is ______
Laser Beam
69 - The time required to spin the desired sector under the read/write head, once the read/write head is positioned on the desired track.
Latency
70 - The tracks are divided into sectors whose size _______
remains the same
71 - The transfer between CPU and Cache is ______________
Word transfer
72 - The typical value of data transfer rate is __________
7.7 MB/s
73 - These devices provide a means of communication between a computer and outer world.
I/O
74 - What does CHS stand for?
Cylinder-head-sector
75 - What does D in the D-flip flop stand for?
Delay
76 - What does GUI stand for?
Graphical User Interface
77 - What does PC stand for?
Program Counter
78 - What does RAID stand for?
Redundant array of independent disks
79 - What is correct instruction if you want the control to go to the location 2000h?
JMP 2000h
80 - What is the high speed memory between the main memory and the CPU called?
Cache Memory
81 - What is the location of the internal registers of CPU?
On-chip
82 - What kind of a flag is the sign flag?
Status
83 - When the data at a location in cache is different from the data located in the main memory, the cache is called _____________
Inconsistent
84 - Whenever the data is found in the cache memory it is called as _________
HIT
85 - Which of the following holds the last instruction fetched?
IR
86 - Which of the following is a data transfer instruction?
STA 16-bit address
87 - Which of the following is an efficient method of cache updating?
Snoopy writes
88 - Which of the following is independent of the address bus?
Secondary memory
89 - Which of the following is not a magnetic disk?
FLASH
90 - Which of the following is not a part of disk address?
Sector size
91 - Which of the following is not a type of optical disk?
Winchester
92 - Which of the following is not a visible register?
MAR
93 - Which of the following is not a write policy to avoid Cache Coherence?
Write within
94 - Which of the following is the correct representation for a storage capacity of a tape?
Storage capacity= Length * data recording density
95 - Which of the following is the fastest means of memory access for CPU?
Registers
96 - Which of the following processor has a fixed length of instructions?
RISC
97 - Which of the following processor has a fixed length of instructions?
RISC
98 - Which of the following uses multiple hard disk platters mounted on a single central shift?
Disk packs
99 - Winchester disks are a type of _______
magnetic disks
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