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Multiple Choice Questions

Sub:Basics of Microcontrollers

1. An Integrated chip having more than 1000 gates is called as (a) Small scale integration (b) Medium scale Integration (c) Very large scale integration (d) Large scale Integration

2. In a CMOS IC (a) Only N-channel MOSFET is used (b) Only P-channel MOSFET is used (c) Both N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs are used (d) Either N-channel or P-channel MOSFET is used

3. Which of the following are true for assembly language (i)Low level (ii) High level (iii) English words (iv) only digits (v) alphanumeric code (a) I & V (b) I & iv (c ) iii & iv (d) I & v

4. In a magnetic tape data storage is (a) Random (b) Either random or sequential (c) Sequential (d) None of the above

2 5. A ROM is a device that contains (a) OR gate only (b) Decoder only (c) Decoder and OR gate (d) Encoder and decoder

6. Intel i860 is a (a) 32-bit OMS microprocessor (b) 32-bit HMOS microprocessor (c) 64-bit RISC microprocessor (d) 8-bit microprocessor

7. The laptop computers displays are of (a) Nixie tubes (b) LED (c) CRT (d) LCD

type.

8.

is an example of an auxiliary memory (a) RAM (b) Bubble memories (c) ROM (d) EPROM

9. LIFO operation is valid only in the case of (a) RAM (b) ROM (c) Stack (d) EPROM

3 10. The contents of EPROM can be erased by exposing it to (a) Ultra violet light (b) Infra red light (c) Monochrome light (d) Microwaves

11. The stored program concept is developed by (a) Van Neumann (b) Hollerith (c) Aiken (d) Hamming

12. 1K memory device contains (a) 512 (b) 640 (c) 1064 (d) 1024

number of memory cells

13. A memory chip organized as the 64x8 has (a) 65536 (b) 65548 (c) 65525 (d) 65575

number of storage locations

14. Flash memory is basically a (a) SRAM

(b) DRAM (c) EPROM (d) EEPROM

15. A 40 bit wide address bus can directly access (a) 1 Kilo (b) 1 Mega (c) 1 Giga (d) 1 Tera

byte of memory

Answers
1-c 2-c 3-d 4-c 5-b 6-c 7-d 8-b 9-c 10-a 11-a 12-d 13-c 14-d 15-d