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This document contains a quiz for a course on computer organization and architecture. The quiz contains 10 multiple choice questions about topics covered in the first week of the course, including time complexity of addition circuits, techniques for evaluating circuit depth, causes of segmentation faults, limits on virtual memory size, task switching, characteristics of the C programming language, and constraints of real-time systems.

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12/28/2017 Computer Organization and Architecture - - Unit 2 - Week 1

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Unit 2 - Week 1

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Week 1 Answer the following questions ( 1 mark )

1) Time taken by a n-bit ripple carry adder is proportional to 1 point


Introduction
High Speed
Circuit - Design
(a) O(n)
Recursive (b) O(log n)
Doubling
(c) O(n*log n)
High Speed (d) O(n2)
Circuit Design -
Fast Adder
Circuits

Lab 1 : Accepted Answers:


Introduction (a) O(n)
Quiz : Week 1 2) The carry look ahead operation (*) can be used to reduce the time complexity of addition 1 point
Assignment 1
operation because of which of these properties of the operation
Lab Installation
Instructions (a) commutativity
(b) associativity
Week 1
Assignment (c) distributivity
Solutions (d) closure
Feedback for
week 1

Week 2 Accepted Answers:


(b) associativity
Week 3
3) The depth of a hardware circuit is evaluated using which of the following techniques 1 point
Week 4
(a) Divide and Conquer

Week 5 (b) Depth First Search


(c) Topological Sorting
Week 6 (d) Branch and Bound

Week 7

Week 8 Accepted Answers:


(c) Topological Sorting
Week 9
4) A Segmentation Fault while generating a user-written program is gener-ated by 1 point
Week 10
(a) Operating System
(b) Compiler
Week 11
(c) High-Level Language
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Week 12 (d) Interpreter

Accepted Answers:
(a) Operating System

5) Size of virtual memory is limited by 1 point

(a) Size of RAM


(b) Size of External Memory
(c) Size of the operating system
(d) Size of the address bus

Accepted Answers:
(d) Size of the address bus

6) Task switching is handled by the 1 point

(a) Compiler
(b) Task
(c) Operating System
(d) Interpreter

Accepted Answers:
(c) Operating System

7) The C-programming language is a 1 point

High-Level Language
Middle-level language
Low level language

Accepted Answers:
High-Level Language

8) Functions like printf() in C-programming language transfers the program control to the 1 point

Compiler
Operating system
Interpreter
Hardware

Accepted Answers:
Operating system

9) The most important constraint of a real-time system is 1 point

Space
Memory
Electricity
Time

Accepted Answers:
Time

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10)Size of a circuit is 1 point

Area of a circuit
Width of circuit
Number of connections
Number of combinational elements

Accepted Answers:
Number of combinational elements

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