Which I/O technique will be used by a sound card that may need to access data stored in the computer's RAM?

• A) Programmed I/O
• B) Interrupt driven I/O
• C) Direct memory access(DMA)
• D) Polling

Select the parts of a hard disk.

• A) Header, data section and a trailer.
• B) Data section only
• C) Header only
• D) Data section and a trailer

How Interrupt driven I/O is better than polling because?

• A) Interrupt driver I/O is easy to design
• B) Interrupt driver I/O does not waste time on checking which device is available.
• C) Interrupt driver I/O is enhanced version of polling.
• D) Interrupt driven I/O is easy to program.

A combination of parallel and sequential hardware used to build a multiplier is known as _______

• A) Parallel Array Multiplier
• B) Series Parallel Multiplier
• C) None of the given
• D) Booth Recording

A component connected to the _________ and with which the master component can communicate during a particular bus cycle. Normally the CPU with its bus control logic is the master component.

• A) Slave component
• B) Bus component
• C) Master component
• D) System bus

___________ depends upon the present position of the head and the position of the required sector.

• A) Throughput
• B) Direct memory Access
• C) Seek time
• D) Execution time

Along with the information bits, we add up another bit, which is called?

• A) Start bit
• B) Stop bit
• C) Parity bit
• D) Header bit

Why DMA is faster than Programmer I/O technique because?

• A) DMA transfers data directly without using CPU
• B) DMA uses buffers with CPU
• C) DMA transfers data directly using CPU.
• D) DMA uses interrupted driven I/O

In ______, bits are encoded in pairs so there are only ' n/2' additions instead of 'n'.

• A) Bit Pair Recording
• B) Integer division
• C) None of the given
• D) Booth Recording

In which one of the following methods, does the CPU poll to identify the interrupting module and branches to an interrupt service routine on detecting an interrupt?

• A) Multiple interrupt lines
• B) Daisy Chain
• C) Software Poll
• D) All of the given options

In Single-Precision Binary Floating Point Representation the exponent is _______

• A) 11 bits
• B) 23 bits
• C) 8 bits
• D) 1 bit

The directive ____________ is used to define variables.

• A) .org
• B) .sw
• C) .db
• D) .equ

______ is a combination of arithmetic, logic and shifter unit along with some multiplexers and control unit.

• A) Control Unit
• B) Barrel Rotator
• C) ALU
• D) Flip Flop

In Double-Precision Binary Floating Point Representation the fraction is _______

• A) 52 bits
• B) 11 bits
• C) 23 bits
• D) 1 bit

The information about interrupt vector is given in 8-bits, from bit 0 to 7, which is translated to bit ___________ on the data bus.

• A) 16 to 23
• B) 11 to 18
• C) 0 to 7
• D) 8 to 15

Which is the last instruction of the ISR that is to be executed when the ISR terminates?

• A) IRQ
• B) NMI
• C) INT
• D) IRET

----------- allows a peripheral to read and write memory without intervention by the CPU.

• A) Polling
• B) Interrupt driven I/O
• C) Programmed I/O
• D) Direct memory access(DMA)

Interrupt driven I/O is better than ______________.

• A) Data Forwarding
• B) Polling
• C) First In First Out
• D) Stall

The source file of FALSIM should contain ____________ text only.

• A) UTF
• B) ANSI
• C) ASCII
• D) Unicode

CRC has ------------ overhead as compared to Hamming code.

• A) Equal
• B) Greater
• C) Lesser
• D) None of the given