CS501 Quiz 4

Q1. A component connected to the system bus and having control of it during a particular bus cycle is called___________.

1. System bus
2. Buffer component
3. Master component
4. Slave component

Correct answer: Master component

Q2. A component connected to the _________ and with which the master component can communicate during a particular bus cycle. Normally the CPU with its bus control logic is the master component.

1. System bus
2. Master component
3. Bus component
4. Slave component

Correct answer: Slave component

Q3. In _______ adder circuit we feed carry out from the previous stage to the next stage and so on.

1. Carry Look Ahead Adder
2. Ripple Carry Adder
3. Complement Adder
4. 2’s Complement Adder

Correct answer: Ripple Carry Adder

Q4. ______ is a combination of arithmetic, logic and shifter unit along with some multiplexers and control unit.

1. Flip Flop
2. Barrel Rotator
3. Control Unit
4. ALU

Correct answer: ALU

Q5. In Single-Precision Binary Floating Point Representation the exponent is _______

1. 11 bits
2. 1 bit
3. 23 bits
4. 8 bits

Correct answer: 8 bits

Q6. Raid level ______ distributes the parity strips across all disks.

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

Correct answer: 5

Q7. For ________ of an error we just need to know that there exists an error.

1. None of the given
2. Detection
3. Both Correction and Detection
4. Correction

Correct answer: Both Correction and Detection

Q8. Along with the information bits, we add up another bit, which is called?

1. Stop bit
2. Parity bit
3. Header bit
4. Start bit

Correct answer: Parity bit

Q9. human works with base 10 and computers work with base _________.

1. 10
2. 8
3. 2
4. 16

Correct answer: 2

Q10. The average latency to the desired data is halfway round the disk so, what will be the average rotational latency if the disk rotates at 20,000 rpm.

1. 1.0ms
2. 1.5ms
3. 2.0ms
4. 1.25ms

Correct answer: 1.5ms