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Our "When Will I Die" Quiz?

  1. Anything that can be done with software can also be done with hardware, and anything that can be done with hardware can also be done with software
  2. Words can be any number of only bytes
  3. In the sum-of-products form, ANDed variables are ORed together
  4. Computers with large main memory capacity can run larger programs with greater speed than computers having huge memories.
  5. Computers don't run programs through iterative fetch-decode-execute cycles
  6. A group of four bits is called a nibble
  7. Simpler circuits are cheaper to build, consume less power, and run faster than complex circuits.
  8. The size of the significand determines the precision of the representation.
  9. A Boolean operator can be completely described using a truth table.
  10. In one's complement, as with signed magnitude, negative values are indicated by a 1 in the high order bit.
  11. The fetch-decode-execute cycle is the series of steps that a computer carries out when it runs a program
  12. A microcode instruction is retrieved during each clock cycle
  13. All sequential circuits are asynchronous
  14. The theoretical advantage offered by the cache is lost in this extreme case
  15. A decoder uses the inputs and their respective values to select ne specific out line
  16. flip- Flop is a storage element to keep the previous output
  17. Computers can run programs that are in machine language
  18. I/O devices connect to the CPU through various interfaces
  19. Nonmaskable interrupts are those interrupts that must be processed in order to keep the system in a stable condition
  20. Nonmaskable interrupts are high-priority interrupts that cannot be ignored
  21. Interrupt processing involves adding another step to the fetch-decode-execute cycle
  22. While the data lines convey bits from one device to another, control lines determine the direction of data flow, and when each device can access the processor.
  23. Interrupts are not useful in processing I/O
  24. Registers hold data that can be readily accessed by the CPU
  25. A group of four binary digits is called a hextet
  26. Add 010011112 to 011000112 using the signed magnitude arithmetic .
  27. Consider situation in which binary numbers are 4 bits in length , and we wish to add 11112 (1510) to 11112 . The result can't be represented by 4 bits , this is an example of
  28. The cycle time for a bus operating at 90MHz is
  29. A Boolean function has:
  30. Suppose a program generates the address 1AA . In 14-bit binary, this number is: 00000110101010 . The first 7 bits of this address go in the _____, the next
  31. Suppose our memory consists of 2 14 words, cache has 16 = 2 4 blocks, and each block holds 8 words. Thus memory is divided into __________ blocks.
  32. There are two types of RAM
  33. Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 216 words of main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 words. How many blocks of main memory are there?
  34. A memory address is partitioned into only two fields: _________ and ____ Choose one answer.
  35. There are two types of write policies ______ , _______
  36. If the memory word size of the machine is 16 bits, then a 5M ยด 16 RAM chip gives us
  37. The number of times per second that the image on a monitor is repainted is its
  38. Ports allow movement of data between a system and its ________ devices
  39. In the MARIE RTL, we use the notation _______ to indicate the actual data value stored in memory location X
  40. A direct addressing mode means
  41. Way in which signed binary numbers may be expressed:
  42. ________ is a set of wires that simultaneously convey a single bit along each line.
  43. Computer representation of a floating-point number consists of fixed-size fields
  44. ________ can be implemented using D flip-flops
  45. Serial ports send data as
  46. The MARIE architecture has the following characteristic :

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