Practice Questions Set II

1. Which of the following requires a device driver?

  • Register
  • RAM
  • Keyboard
  • CPU

2. The performance of a pipelined processor suffers if

  • The pipeline stages have different relays
  • Consecutive instructions are dependent on each other
  • The pipeline stages share hardware resources
  • All of the above

3. How many hosts can successfully send data simultaneously on Ethernet?

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • unlimited

4. Let us say that a queue is implemented using stacks. What are the minimum numbers of stacks needed to represent it?

  •  1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

5. What is Hyper Terminal in windows OS?

  • A terminal having high bandwidth connections
  • A software to connect to other computers outside using a modem
  • A terminal with multiple applications
  • None of the above

6. Electronic Transactions and Digital signature Act does not include the following:

  •  Cyber Crime
  • IT Tribunal
  • Payment Gateway
  • All of the above

7. The function of the control unit is to

  • Calculate arithmetic expressions of a formula
  • Manage and coordinate the entire computer system
  • Controls only the memory
  • Controls only the input/output

8. Suppose that a certain software product has a mean time between failures of 10,000 hours and has a mean time to repair of 20 hours. If the product is used by 100 customers, what is its availability?

  •  80%
  • 90%
  • 98%
  • 99.8%

9. A certain manufacturer has opted for a demand paging strategy in the memory management subsystem. Which of the following statements is true?

  • Using smaller page sizes will generally lead to lower internal fragmentation.
  • Using smaller page sizes will generally lead to a smaller page table.
  • Using smaller page sizes will generally lead to lower external fragmentation
  • compared to first-in-first-out paging, most-recently-used paging will generally lead to lower external fragmentation

10. Which of the following requirements is a good reason why an organization might choose to used 100Base-T Fast Ethernet?

  •  Throughput rates in excess of 100 Mbps are required
  • Cable segments are expected to exceed 500 meters.
  • A bus protcol , is undesirable due to the possibility of packed sniffing
  • The protocol must be supported by major vendors and compatible with many products

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