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Nguyễn Đức Thiên Ân – SE182633 – SE1917

Assignment 2
Câu 1: The ABI is the boundary between hardware and software.
A. true
B. false
Câu 2: Assume an instruction set that uses a fixed 14-bit instruction
length. Operand specifiers are
What is the maximum number of one-operand instructions that can
be supported?
A. 256
B. 128
C. 32
D. 512
E. 64
Câu 3: A number of chips can be grouped together to form a memory
bank.
A. true
B.false
Câu 4:The cache is capable of handling global as well as local
variables.
A.true
B. False
Câu 5:Consider a magnetic disk drive with 4 surfaces, 512 tracks per
surface, and 32 sectors per ti
is 512 byte. What is the disk capacity?
A. 32 MB
B. 512 KB
C. 64 KB
D. 16 GB
E. 64 MB
Câu 6:The unary operation______inverts the value of its operand.
A. XOR
B. NAND
C. NOT
D. OR

Câu 7:Three of the most common uses of stack addressing are


relative addressing, base-register a
indexing.
A. False
B. True
Câu 8:The most important system program is the OS.
A. False
B. True
Câu 9:When using graph coloring, nodes that share the same color cannot be
assigned to the same
A. True
B. False
Câu 10:With a batch operating system the user does not have direct access to
the processor.
A. True
B. False
Câu 11:_____is a principle by which two variables are independent of each
other.
A. Autoindexing
B. Opcode
C. Completeness
D. Orthogonality
Câu 12:Because data are striped in very small strips, RAID 3 cannot achieve
very high data transfer
A. False
B. True
Câu 13:The register file employs much shorter addresses than addresses for
cache and memory.
A. True
B. False
Câu 14:A bus that connects major computer components (processor,
memory, I/O) is called a _____
A. control bus
B. system bus
C. data bus
D. address bus
Câu 15:A common example of system interconnection is by means of a ______
A data transport
B. control device
C. register
D. system bus
Câu 16:Second generation computers used ______
A. integrated circuits
B. large-scale integration
C. transistors
D. vacuum tubes
Câu 17:Architectural attributes include _____
A. memory technology used
B. interfaces
C. control signals
D. I/O mechanisms
Câu 18:The instruction location immediately following the delayed branch is
referred to as the_____
A. delay load
B. delay file
C. delay register
D. delay slot
Câu 19:Both batch multiprogramming and time sharing use multiprogramming.
A. False
B. True
Câu 20:The predict-never-taken approach is the most popular of all the branch
prediction methods.
A. True
B. False

Câu 21:The defines the system call interface to the operating system
and the hardware services available in a system through the user
instruction set architecture.
Α. ΑΡΙ
B. ISA
C. ABI
D. HLL
Câu 22:______ registers may be used only to hold data and cannot be
employed in the calculation address.
A. General purpose
B. Condition code
C. Data
D. Address
Câu 23: The method of using the same lines for multiple purposes is known as
time multiplexing.
A. True
B. False
Câu 24:Counters can be designated as
A. asynchronous
B. neither asynchronous or synchronous
C. synchronous
D. both asynchronous and synchronous
Câu 25:The______ controls the movement of data and instructions into and out
of the processor.
A. control unit
B. ALU
C. shifter
D. branch
Câu 26: The routine executed in response to an interrupt request is called
routine.
A. Interrupt Service
B. Interrupt acknowledge
C. Serial interrupt
D. Vectored interrupt
E. Sub-routine

Câu 27:The correspondence between the main memory blocks and those in the
cache is specified
A. Segment function
B. Hit rate
C. Replacement algorithm
D. Mapping function
E. Miss penalty
Câu 28:.... is when the disk rotates more slowly for accesses near the outer
edge than for the center.
A. Seek time
B. Magnetoresistive
C. Constant angular velocity (CAV)
D. Constant linear velocity (CLV)

Câu 29: The …. interprets the instructions in memory and causes them to be
executed.
A. I/O
B. control unit
C. main memory
D. arithmetic and logic unit

Câu 30: What is stored in the Stack Pointer?


A. Address of next instruction
B. Stack data values
C. Addressing method
D. Operations
E. Address of top item

Câu 31: With direct addressing, the length of the address field is usually less
than the word length, the address range.
A. True
B. False

Câu 32: Cycle stealing is/are used in which concept?


A. Programmed I/O
B. DMA
C. Interrupts
D. Memory mapped I/O
E. All of the above

Câu 33: An I/O module must recognize one unique address for each peripheral
it controls.
A. True
B. False

Câu 34:An I/O device is referred to as a ….


A. CPU
B. control device
C. register
D. peripheral

Câu 35: The basic function of a computer is to execute programs.


A. False
B. True

Câu 36: The data lines provide a path for moving data among system modules
and are collectively ....
A control bus
B. system bus
C. address bus
D. data bus

Câu 37: The…. consists of the access time plus any additional time required
before a second commence.
A direct access
B. transfer rate
C. memory cycle time
D. latency

Câu 38: The performance of the cache memory is measured in terms of a


quantity called….
A Hit Ratio
B. Instruction Ratio
C. Miss Ratio
D. Initialization Ratio
E. Address Ratio

Câu 39: All DRAMs require a refresh operation.


A. True
B. False

Câu 40: I/O channels are commonly seen on microcomputers, whereas I/O
controllers are used on n
A. True
B. False

Câu 41:The determines ____________ the opcode and the operand specifiers.
A decode instruction
B. fetch operands
C. calculate operands.
D. execute instruction.

Câu 42:A(n)________generated by a failure such as power failure or memory parity


errors.
A. Time interrupt
B. Hardware failure interrupt
C. I/O interrupt
D. Program interrupt

Câu 43:A_______ disk is permanently mounted in disk drive,such as the hard disk in a
person.
A. Removable
B. Double sided
C. Nonremovable
D. movable-head
Câu 44: Which of the following types of memory is non-volatile?
A. Erasable PROM
B. Programmable ROM
C. flash memory
D. All of the above

Câu 45:Interfaces between the computer and peripherals is example of the organizational
attribute
A. False
B. True

Câu 47:_______ are a set of storage locations.


A. Registers
B. Control units
C. PSWs
D. Processor

Câu 48:The_______ hold the address of the next instruction to be fetched.


A. MBR
B. IR
C. PC
D. MAR

Câu 49:The method of calculating the EA is the same for bot base-register addressing
and indexing
A. True
B. False

Câu 50:The_________ perform s the computer’s data processing function.


A. System bus
B. Register
C. Alu
D. CPU interconnection

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