MCQ – Computer Architecture – Set III

1. Which of the following require large computer memory?

  • Imaging
  • Graphics
  • Voice
  • All of the above   **

2. Which major development led to the production of microcomputers?

  • Magnetic disks
  • floppy disks
  • Logic gates
  • Integrated Circuits  **

3. In immediate addressing the operand is placed

  • in the CPU register
  • after opcode in the instruction  **
  • in the memory
  • in the stack

4. Micro instructions are stored in

  • computer memory
  • primary storage
  • secondary storage
  • control memory  **
  • cache memory

5. Pipeline processing implement

  • fetch instruction
  • decode instruction
  • fetch operand
  • calculate operand
  • execute instruction
  • all of the above  **

6. The 16- bit registers in 8085 is

  • general purpose register
  • accumulator
  • stack pointer and program counter  **
  • all of the above

7. Instruction pipelining has minimum stages

  • 4
  • 2  **
  • 3
  • 6

8. Systems that do not have parallel processing capabilities are

  • SISD  **
  • SIMD
  • MIMD
  • All of the above

9. The word size of the microprocessor refers to

  • the amount of a information that can be stored in a byte
  • the amount of a information that can be stored in a cycle  **
  • The number of machine operations performed in a second
  • the maximum length of an English word that can be input to a computer

10. How many address lines are needed to address each memory location in a 2048X 4 memory chip?

  • 10
  • 11  **
  • 8
  • 12

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