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1. Which of the following gives the more logical view of the storage medium?
 Assignment Upload Guide
1. BIOS
 MDB Posting Guide
2. DOS
3. Both
Important VU Links
4. None

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2. An 8 x 16 font is stored in ______________ bytes.  VU Orientation
1. 2  LMS Login
2. 4  DateSheet Link
3. 8  VU Email
4. 16  VU Contacts
 Student Hand Book
3. In DOS input buffer, the number of characters actually read on return is stored in  Open Courseware
___________ byte.  VU Radio
1. 3rd  VU tv channels
2. 4th  Content Library
3. 1st
4. 2nd

4. Which of the following interrupts is Non maskable interrupt?

1. INT 2
2. INT 3
3. INT 0
4. INT 1

5. In STOSW instruction, when DF is clear, DI is ___________

1. Incremented by 1
2. Incremented by 2
3. Decremented by 1
4. Decremented by 2

6. Which bit of the attributes byte represents the red component of foreground color?

1. 5
2. 4
3. 3
4. 2

7. SP is associated with ____________ , by default.

1. SS
2. DS
3. CS
4. ES

8. When an element is pushed on the stack SP is decremented by ________.

1. 3
2. 2
3. 4
4. 1

9. The other directive is "define word" or "dw" with the same syntax as "db" but reserving a
whole word of ________ bits instead of a byte.

1. 32
2. 8
3. 16
4. 64

10. The 8088 processor divides interrupts into ________ classes.

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

11. Physical memory adresses is of

1. 16 Bits
2. 32 Bits
3. 20 Bits
4. 8 Bits

12. Which of the following string instruction is generally used in a loop instead of REP prefix?

1. SCAS
2. LODS
3. CMPS
4. STOS

13. "mov [bp], al" moves the one byte contents of the AL register to the address contained in BP
register in the current ________.

1. Stack Segment
2. Data Segment
3. Code Segment
4. Extra Segment

14. Number of operands of ADC (add with carry) register are:

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

15. There are ________ registers in iAPX88 architecture that can hold address of data.

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

16. In branching mechanism, the assembler

1. Replaces the target with its address

2. Does not replace until the test condition is satisfied
3. Finds the Branch offset and replaces the Branch target with it
4. Replaces the target with the value specified by the DATAWORD directive

17. The purpose of MOVS instruction is:

1. Move register to register

2. Move register to a memory location
3. Move a memory location to register
4. Move memory to memory

18. ASCII table is the contiguous arrangement of the upercase alphabets (41-5A), the lowercase
alphabets (61-7A), and the numbers ________.

1. 31-40
2. 29-39
3. 30-39
4. 31-41

19. In a comparison, if the both operands are same. The result of subtraction will be zero and
the zero flag will be ________.

1. Set
2. Incremented
3. Updated
4. Decremented

20. Which of the following is a non-destructive AND operation?

1. AND
2. XOR
3. OR
4. Test

21. mov [1234], ax is an example of

1. direct addressing
2. base register indirect
3. base+index addressing
4. register indirect addressing

22. DX plays an important role in arithmetic ________.

1. addition
2. multiplication
3. division
4. subtraction

23. Which of the following Move generates error in .com file?

1. Legal move
2. Illegal move
3. Ambiguous move
4. Fetal move

24. Which of the following register is used to hold address of the next instruction to be
executed?

1. Memory address register

2. Memory data register
3. Instruction registers
4. Program counter

25. ________ instruction makes the code reusable.

1. Mov
2. JMP
3. CALL
4. SHL

26. How many characters were defined by standard ASCII?

1. 132
2. 124
3. 122
4. 128

27. The top of stack is contained in ________ register.

1. SP
2. BP
3. AX
4. BX

28. Sending the appropriate signals on the control bus to the memory is the responsibility of
________.

1. Memory
2. Processor
3. Control Bus
4. Data Bus

29. The execution of the instruction "mov word [ES : 160], 0x1230" will print a character on the
screen at:

1. first column of second row

2. second column of first row
3. second column of second row
4. first column of third row

30. In ________ every bit moves one position to the right and the bit dropped from the right is
inserted at the left and also copied into the carry flag?

1. ROL
2. RCR
3. RCL
4. ROR

31. CX register is mostly used as a

1. counter register
2. flag register
3. base register
4. destination register

32. If AX=5, BX=5, CF and ZF are set, AF and DX contains zero then after the execution of
instruction "ADC AX, BX", AX will contain the value ________.

1. 5
2. 10
3. 11
4. 6

33. MOV [BX+SI+300], AX is a ________ addressing mode instruction.

1. Base + Index + Offset

2. Base + Index
3. Index Register Indirect + Offset
4. Illegal

34. In general, width of a memory cell cannot be greater than the width of ________.

1. Control Bus
2. Data Bus
3. Address Bus
4. I/O Bus

35. All mathematical and logical operations are performed on the ________.

1. Accumulator
2. Arithmetic Logic Unit
3. Program Counter
4. Flag Register

36. ________ is a special instruction that load a segment register and a general purpose register
from a memory locations.

1. SCAS
2. MOV
3. CALL
4. LES

37. Group of bits processor uses to inform memory which element to read/write is collectively
known as

1. Control bus
2. Data bus
3. Address bus
4. RAM

38. Which of the following operation is used to clear any specific bit in a binary number?

1. AND
2. OR
3. XOR
4. NOT

39. Which part of this (00000000000 B80500) encoded instruction is an offset?

1. First Column
2. Second column
3. B8
4. 0500

40. SCAS compares a source byte or word in register AL or AX with the ________ string element
addressed by ES: DI and updates the flags.

1. Source
2. Destination
3. Flag
4. Register

41. What does the given instruction do?

SHR DL, 1

1. move right most bit in carry

2. move bit in DL
3. Shift and store the One bit in DL
4. Shift and store the most bit in DL

42. ________ is set only when the last mathematical or logical operation produces a zero in its
destination.

1. Single Flag
2. Zero flag
3. Trap Flag
4. Parity Flag

43. The extention of assembly languague file is

1. .doc
2. .com
3. .lst
4. .asm

44. Stack is a data structure that behaves in a first in last ________ manner.

1. In
2. Out
3. Push
4. Add

45. The instruction, MOV AX, 0005H belongs to the address mode of ________ .

1. Register
2. Direct
3. Immediate
4. Register Relative

46. This jump is taken if the last arithmethic operation produced a positive number in its
destination.

1. JNP
2. JO
3. JNS
4. JG

47. BH register is a ________ bit register.

1. 8
2. 16
3. 24
4. 32

48. The jump command that does not depend on FLAG register is

1. JCXZ
2. JO
3. JNE
4. JP

49. ________ is the basic means of sorting temporary data on the stack.

1. PUSH
2. POP
3. CALL
4. RET

50. Which of the following addressing scheme has been used in the instruction MOV [BX], AX?

1. Base Register Direct

2. Base Register Indirect
3. Base + Offset
4. Base + Index

51. ________ and ________ are taken if the last arithmetic operation produced a number in its
destination that has odd parity.

1. JP, JPE
2. JS, JNS
3. JCX, JNS
4. JNP, JPO

52. In case of 32-bit processor, the size of an accumulator register will be ________ bits.

1. 16
2. 8
3. 32
4. 64

53. The interrupt call loads new values in ________ segment.

1. ES
2. DS
3. CS
4. SS

54. The jump is taken if the last arithmetic operation changed the sign unexpectedly.

1. JO
2. JNO
3. JNZ
4. JZ

55. All the addressing modes return the number after calculation, this number is known as
________ ?

1. Base Address
2. Offset Address
3. Data Address
4. Effective Address

56. ________ is a temporary storage places inside the processor.

1. Memory
2. Ram
3. Cache
4. Register

57. There are just ________ block processing instructions in 8088.

1. 6
2. 5
3. 4
4. 3

58. MUL (multiply) instruction performs an unsigned multiplication of the source operand and
the ________ .

1. Accumulator
2. Carry
3. Word
4. Base

59. When a 32 bit number is divided by a 16 bit number, the quotient is of _______.

1. 32 bits
2. 16 bits
3. 8 bits
4. 4 bits

60. In the instruction MOV AX, 5 the number of operands are _______.

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

61. In DOS input buffer, number of characters actually read on return is stored in _______.

1. 1st byte
2. 2nd byte
3. 3rd byte
4. 4th byte

62. Which of the following is used to terminate a string in assembly language?

1. !
2. #
3. $
4. ;

63. In multitasking, which of the following interrupts is used as scheduler during context
switching?

1. INT 21
2. INT 16
3. INT 13
4. INT 8

64. We can set the current file position in DOS using service number ________.

1. 0x38
2. 0x40
3. 0x42
4. 0x43

65. In the context of video services, if we want to set cursor position which of the following will
be the value of AH?

1. AH = 01h
2. AH = 02h
3. AH = 03h
4. AH = 04h

66. Which of the following registers hold the page number for using the write string service of
INT 10?

1. AH
2. BL
3. CL
4. BH

67. ______ is the highest priority interrupt in interrupt controller.

1. IRQ 0
2. IRQ 1
3. IRQ 2
4. IRQ 3

68. The 'program segment prefix' for com files is of size:

1. 64 bytes
2. 128 bytes
3. 256 bytes
4. 512 bytes

69. "INT 13-BIOS disk services" generally uses which register to return the 'error code'?

1. CF
2. DL
3. AH
4. AL

70. Which of the following services of INT 10 is used for writing the string?

1. 0x12
2. 0x13
3. 0x11
4. 0x10

71. Which of the following INT 21 service is used to read character from standard input?

1. 00
2. 01
3. 02
4. 03

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ACC311 ACC501 BIF101 BIF401 BIF501 BIO101 BIO201 BIO202 BIO203 BIO204 BIO301 BIO302

BIO303 BIO401 BIO503 BNK603 BT101 BT201 BT301 BT302 BT401 BT402 BT403 BT404 BT405

BT406 BT501 BT504 BT505 BT604 CHE201 CHE301 CS001 CS101 CS201 CS202 CS204 CS301

CS302 CS304 CS311 CS401 CS402 CS403 CS408 CS501 CS502 CS504 CS506 CS508 CS601

CS602 CS604 CS605 CS607 CS609 CS610 CS614 CS707 CS710 ECO401 ECO402 ECO403

ECO404 EDU302 EDU401 EDU402 EDU501 EDU601 ENG101 ENG201 ENG301 ENG501 FIN611

FIN624 FIN625 ISL201 IT430 MCM101 MCM301 MGMT623 MGT101 MGT211 MGT301 MGT401

MGT402 MGT501 MGT502 MGT503 MGT510 MGT601 MGT603 MKT501 MKT610 MKT630 MTH101

MTH202 MTH302 MTH501 MTH601 MTH634 PAK301 PHY101 PHY301 PSY101 PSY403 PSY502

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ZOO503 ZOO504 ZOO505 ZOO506 ZOO510 ZOO630

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ACC311 CS001 CS101 CS201 CS301 CS607 CS701 CS702 CS703 CS704 CS707 CS708 CS710

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