Parallel Processing Objective Questions | MCQ Quiz for Practice

61. When a subroutine is called, the address of the instruction following the CALL instructions stored in/on the

1. stack pointer
2. accumulator
3. program counter
4. Stack

62. When Performing a looping operation, the instruction gets stored in the

1. Registers
2. Cache
3. System Heap
4. System stack

63. Which Algorithm is better choice for pipelining?

1. Small Algorithm
2. Hash Algorithm
3. Merge-Sort Algorithm
4. Quick-Sort Algorithm

64. Which cache miss does not occur in case of a fully associative cache ?

1. Conflict miss
2. Capacity miss
3. Compulsory miss
4. Cold start miss

65. Which is the fastest storage unit in a usual memory hierarchy?

1. Cache
2. Main memory
3. Hard disk
4. Register

66. Which major development led to the production of microcomputers?

1. Magnetic disks
2. floppy disks
3. Logic gates
4. Integrated Circuits

67. Which MIMD systems are best scalable with respect to the number of processors?

1. Distributed memory computers
2. ccNUMA systems
3. nccNUMA systems
4. Symmetric multiprocessors

68. Which miss even occurs in infinite caches?

1. Coherence miss
2. Capacity miss
3. Conflict miss
4. Cold start miss

69. Which of the architecture is power efficient?

1. CISC
2. RISC
3. ISA
4. IANA

70. Which of the following bus is used to transfer data from main memory to peripheral device?

1. DMA bus
2. Output bus
3. Data bus
4. All of the above

71. Which of the following code is used in present day computing was developed by IBM corporation?

1. ASCII
2. Hollerith Code
3. Baudot code
4. EBCDIC code

72. Which of the following is true about interrupts?

1. They are generated when memory cycles are stolen
2. They are used in place of data channels
3. They can be generated by arithmetic operation
4. They can indicate completion of an I/O operation

73. Which of the following memories in a computer is volatile?

1. RAM
2. ROM
3. EPROM
4. ALL

74. Which of the following require large computer memory?

1. Imaging
2. Graphics
3. Voice
4. All of the above

75. Which one of the following is a characteristic of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer)

1. Fixed format instructions
2. Variable format instructions
3. Instructions are executed by hardware
4. None of the above