Microprocessor First Quiz Objectives

Identification

1. This is a specialized machine for cipher-breaking, not a general-purpose calculator or computer but some sort of logic device, using a combination of electronics and relay logic. It reads data optically at 2000 characters per second from 2 closed loops of paper tape, each typically about 1000 characters long. It was significant since it was the fore-runner of Colossus, see December 1943.Colossus 1

2. Floppy Disk was invented at the Imperial University in Tokyo Japan. What is the name of the inventor?Yoshiro Nakamatsu

3. Who builds the first binary calculator at Bell Telephone Laboratories?George Stibitz

4. The first binary calculator based on Boolean algebra. It works with floating point numbers having a 7-bit exponent, 16-bit mantissa, and a sign bit. The memory uses sliding metal parts to store 16 such numbers and works well; but the arithmetic unit is less successful.Z1

5. What was the original name of Z2?

6. What is the temperature range within which a disk will operate?10-50°C

7. What term is used for programs such as assemblers, compilers and operating systems?Software

8. What is one of the more widespread uses of the computer?Word-processing

9. What were computers of the first generation characterized by?Vacuum Tubes

10. What is the name of the first high-level language invented by Grace Hopper in 1953?Flow-matic

11. A Yugoslavian who worked for Thomas Edison, patents electrical logic circuits called gates or switches?Nikola Tesla

12. A programming language released by Kenneth Iverson at IBM in 1961.APL

13. The first structured procedural.Algol

14. JOHNNIAC was a reference to a person who was unquestionably a genius. At age 6 he could tell jokes in classical Greek. By 8 he was doing calculus. He could recite books he had read years earlier word for word. He could read a page of the phone directory and recite it backwards.John Von Neumann

15. In 1952, this person writes the first computer manual.Fred Gruenberger

16. He builds a large scale analog calculator, the differential analyzer, at MIT.Vannevar Bush

17. The most common method of creating a backup for a microcomputer in late 90s.Floppy Disk and Disk Copy Procedure

18. What is another name of Gerbert of Aurillac, who devises a more efficient abacus?Pope Sylvester II

19. Scotsman named John Napier invented a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition.Logarithms

20. How many systems dealing with accounting applications have been widely accepted?

21. What is the name called by this German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (co-inventor with Newton of calculus) managed who build a four-function (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) calculator because, instead of gears, it employed fluted drums having ten flutes arranged around their circumference in a stair-step fashion?Stepped Reckoner

22. UNIVAC computer, the first commercial (that is, mass produced) computer. What is UNIVAC stands for?Universal Automatic Computer

23. It is a machine weighed 5 tons, incorporated 500 miles of wire, was 8 feet tall and 51 feet long, and had a 50 feet rotating shaft running its length, turned by a 5 horsepower electric motor?Mark I

24. What is the first computer “Bug”?Dead Moth

25. Who found the first computer bug?Grace Hopper

26. He develops the first commercially successful mechanical adding machine?William Burroughs

27. He published the Mathematical Analysis of Logic using the binary system now known as Boolean algebra.George Boole

28. In 1952, this person writes the first computer manual.Fred Gruenberger

29. These are computers design to perform a wide variety of functions and operations.General Purpose Computers

30. It is a communications pathway connecting two or more devices.Bus

31. A register that specify the address in memory for the next read or write operation.Memory Address Register

32. The most common output display or monitor was the CRT and was invented in 1928. Who was then the inventor?Vladimir Zworykin

33. In what year that Wilhelm Schickard builds the first four function calculator-clock at the University of Heidelberg.1624

34. A program that is written in machine language.Source Program

35. How many instructions set thus the 8080 microprocessor has?72

36. LDA, SUB and ADD in SAP assembly language are the instruction set, and they involve data stored in the memory. What is the reference name given to the three instructions set?Memory Reference Instruction

37. A program that is written purely in mnemonics.Source Code

38. It is used to keep track of which instruction is to be fetched next.Program Counter

39. SAP has six T states (fetch and execute), what is the reference name given to this states?Machine Cycle

40. A number of T states needed to fetch and execute an instruction. And is referred as what?Instruction Cycle

41. That part of the instruction which tells the computer what operation to perform.Op Code

42. The mnemonics used in writing a program in SAP.Assembly Language

43. What is the central set of programs called that manages the execution of other programs and performs common functions like read, write and print?Operating System

44. In first generation computers, internal processing functions were measured by what division of time?Millisecond

45. What type of applications was most third generation computer systems designed to accomplish?Both Scientific and Business Data Processing Application

46. The first virtual memory machine, installed in England by Feranti. It was developed at the University of Manchester by R.M. Kilburn.Atlas

47. How many millions of instructions thus an 80286 can executes in a second?8 MIPs

48. It is a module contains basic components for accepting data and instruction in some form and converting them into an external form of signals usable by the system.I/O Module

49. A register that specify the address in memory for the next read or write.Memory Buffer Register

50. It is used to keep track of which instruction is to be fetched next.Instruction Address Register

51. The collection of paths connecting the various modules.Interconnection Structures

52. A communications pathway connecting two or more devices.Bus

53. It is an architecture that there’s a collection of lines that are shared by all modules.I/O to Bus

54. Lines that designate the source or destination of the data on the data bus.Address Lines

55. A register that contains data read from memory or data to be written to memory.Memory Data Register

56. It is an architecture that involves the direct independent access of main memory by two or more components.I/O to Memory

57. It is a device that allows a computer to exchange data with a remote device which may be human readable for machine.

58. It needs to have a memory to set the instruction and place to hold this instruction which is the Instruction Register (IR).

59. Include the address and switch register. The switch register which are part of the input unit register allow sending an address bits to the RAM.MAR

60. Is a part of a control unit, the contents of these register are split into two nibbles; upper nibbles which has two state output that goes directly to the controller, sequencer and lower nibble which has three state output that is directed into WBUS.IR

61. The SAP-1 architecture is 8 bits comprise of how many memory location and memory contains.

62. Machine instruction that composed of 1’s 0’s.

63. Which is also part of control unit which send addresses to the memory, the address of the next instruction to be fetched are executed.

64. Controls the operation of the computer.Controller

65. The first part of the instruction cycle, where the address is sent to the memory.

66. A control word out of the controller-sequencer.

67. It is this state where the address in the program counter is transferred to the MAR.

68. It is part of the instruction which tells the computer what to do.Op Code

69. It is a register that receives instructions from the memory.Instruction Register

70. It is in this state where the instruction in the memory is transferred to the instruction register.

71. An instruction that calls for a second memory operation to access data.

72. One of the instructions in the instruction set.

73. The first part of the instruction cycle, where the address is sent to the memory.Fetch

74. A program written in mnemonics.Source Code

75. It is a register that receives the address of the data to be accessed in memory.Memory Address Register

76. It is a control line that will indicates that the data have been accepted from or placed on the bus.Transfer ACK

77. It indicates that a module needs to gain control of the bus.

78. It is a general purpose register that also holds the most significant part of the product or dividend after/before a 16 or 32 bit multiplication/division.DX

79. It will indicate the condition of the microprocessor as well as control its operation.Flag Register

80. It is a section of memory that holds programs and procedures used by the program.

81. It is the actual hardware structure of the memory system.Physical Memory

82. What is the average instruction execution time of a 50 MIPS processor?20 ns

83. It is a general purpose pointer often used to address an array of data in the stack memory.Base Pointer

84. Mechanical computers are considered to be what type?Analog Computer

85. The navy uses analog computers primarily for what purpose?Gun Fire Control

86. How do electromechanical computers differ from the mechanical computers?

87. In electronic computers, vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors and transistors have been replaced by what device?Integrated Circuits

88. What is the average instruction execution time of a 75 MIPs processor?

89. In what year that the Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.1994

90. In what year that Intel says its next microprocessor will be called Pentium instead of 586.1992

91. If the memory system overlaps, what is the minimum number of overlapped bits other than 0?1

92. How much memory does the 80486 microprocessor address?46

93. How many instruction the 4004 can offered?45

94. Controls the selection of increment and decrement for the DI and/or SI registers during string instruction.

Direction

95. It is an addressing mode that transfers a byte or word from the source register or memory to the destination register or memory location.Register Addressing

96. It will move a byte or word between a memory location and a register.Direct Addressing

97. It will transfer a byte or word between a register and the memory location addressed by a base and an index register plus a displacement.Base Relative Plus Index

98. It is syntax for multiplication of signed numbers.|MUL

99. First commercial American computer was designed and built by Eckert and Mauchly and was used for opinion polls in 1952 presidential elections.UNIVAC 1

100. This was the earliest calculating machine in history. –Multiplication and division required several interventions by the operator.Wilhelm Shickard’s Calculating Clock

101. It is a section of memory that holds programs and procedures used by the program.Code Segment

102.