MCQ Bank
Along with information bits we add up another bit which is called the______________bit.
- A) Hamming
- B) Parity
- C) CRC
- D) Error Detection
Raid level ______ distributes the parity strips across all disks.
- A) 5
- B) 3
- C) 4
- D) 2
human works with base 10 and computers work with base _________.
- A) 16
- B) 10
- C) 2
- D) 8
The average latency to the desired data is halfway round the disk so, what will be the average rotational latency if the disk rotates at 20,000 rpm.
- A) 1.0ms
- B) 1.25ms
- C) 2.0ms
- D) 1.5ms
A _______signal decides whether the input word should be shifted or bypassed.
- A) Control Read
- B) None of the given
- C) shift/bypass
- D) Control Write
______ is the simplest form for representing a signed number
- A) Sign Magnitude Form
- B) Diminished Radix Compliment Form
- C) Biased Representation
- D) None of the given
Taking control of the system bus for a few bus cycles is known as _____________.
- A) Cycle Transfering
- B) Cycle Stealing
- C) None of given
- D) Bus Stealing
The conversion of numbers from a representation in one base to another is known as_______
- A) Number Representation
- B) Decimal representation
- C) Radix Conversion
- D) Hexadecimal Representation
In which technique does the hardware directly access host memory for reading or writing independent of CPU?
- A) Interrupt driven I/O
- B) Direct Memory Access (DMA)
- C) Polling
- D) Programmed I/O
By which file extension does the FALCON-A Assembler loads a FALCON-A assembly file?
- A) .exe
- B) .org
- C) .asmfa
- D) .src
How does DMA saves CPU time?
- A) By issuing an interrupt request to the CPU to request attention.
- B) By periodically polling.
- C) By controlling data transfer between I/O device and memory directly.
- D) By storing all data in a buffer to be later transferred to the CPU.
What is the basic idea of “carry look ahead”?
- A) To speed up the ripple carry
- B) To solve the redundancy
- C) To synchronize with CPU clock
- D) To reduce congestion
The _________ of an m digit number x is \[{x^c} = {b^m} - 1 - x\]
- A) Diminished Radix Compliment
- B) Radix Compliment
- C) Biased Representation
- D) Signed Magnitude Form
What should be the behavior of interrupts during critical sections?
- A) Only important interrupts be enable.
- B) Depends on current situation
- C) Must remain Disable
- D) Must remain Enable
----------the device usually means reading its status register every so often until the device's status changes to indicate that it has completed the request.
- A) Masking
- B) Interrupting
- C) Polling
- D) Executing
When a particular sector is found, the data is transferred to ____________.
- A) I/O module
- B) Instruction register
- C) RAM
- D) Cache memory
When an I/O module has a capability of executing a specific set of instructions for specific I/O devices in the memory without the involvement of CPU is called ________.
- A) Cycle Stealing
- B) I/O processors
- C) Selector Channel
- D) I/O Channel
The ___________ can be determined from the number of platters and the number of tracks.
- A) execution time
- B) Latency
- C) storage capacity
- D) Speed of processing
____________ lets the user execute the program, one instruction at a time.
- A) Change PC
- B) List File
- C) Single Step
- D) Execute
Raid Level ____ is not a true member of the RAID family.
- A) 2
- B) 3
- C) 0
- D) 4