Parallel Processing Quizzes | Trivia Quiz for Practice

76. Which one of the following is most suitable to make a parity checkerA

1. AND gateB
2. OR gateC
3. Exclusive- OR gateD
4. None of the above

77. Which value has the speedup of a parallel program that achieves an efficiency of 75% on 32 processors?

1. 18
2. 24
3. 16
4. 20

78. Who is regarded as the founder of Computer Architecture?

1. Alan Turing
2. Konrad Zuse
3. John von Neumann
4. John William Mauchly

79. Who is regarded as the founder of Computer Science?

1. Alan Turing
2. Konrad Zuse
3. J. Presper Eckert
4. John William Mauchly

80. A collection of lines that connects several devices is called

1. bus
2. peripheral connection wires
3. Both a and b
4. internal wires

81. A complete microcomputer system consist of

1. microprocessor
2. memory
3. peripheral equipment
4. all of the above

82. A microprogram written as string of 0 and 1 is a

1. Symbolic microinstruction
2. binary microinstruction
3. symbolic microinstruction
4. binary micro-program

83. A microprogram written as string of 0 and 1 is a

1. symbolic microinstruction
2. binary microinstruction
3. symbolic microprogram
4. binary microprogram

84. A modem is used to link up two computers via

1. telephone line
2. dedicated line
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above

85. A peripheral is

1. any drives installed in the computer
2. tapedrive connected to a computer
3. any physical device connected to the computer
4. None of above

86. A pipeline is like

1. an automobile assembly line
2. house pipeline
3. both a and b
4. a gas line

87. A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called

1. Super-scaling
2. Pipe-lining
3. Parallel Computation
4. None of these

88. An instruction to provide small delay in program

1. LDA
2. NOP
3. BEA
4. None of the above

89. An optimizing Compiler does,

1. Better compilation of the given piece of code.
2. Takes advantage of the type of processor and reduces its process time.
3. Does better memory managament.
4. Both a and c

90. As of 2000, the reference system to find the performance of a system is

1. Ultra SPARC 10
2. SUN SPARC
3. SUN II
4. None of these