IENG 331 Test #1 Name: Key

Spring 2005 Max Points: 100

1. (4) __________ is regarded as father of modern computers:

a) Joseph Jacquard
b) Charles Babbage
c) Herman Hollerith
d) Gottfried Leibniz
e) Blaise Pascal

2. (4) First generation computers were based on

a) LSI technology
b) VLSI technology
c) Transistors
d) Vacuum tubes
e) None of the above

3. (4) The contents of _________ are lost on power down

a) RAM
b) ROM
c) Floppy Disk
d) Hard Disk
e) None of the above

4. (4) When an application program is being executed it is stored in

a) CPU
b) ROM
c) RAM
d) DRAM
e) None of the above

5. (4) The internal components of a computer are connected by a

a) Car
b) Bus
c) ROM
d) RAM
e) None of the above

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 6. (4) The internal operations of the computer are synchronized by
a) Wall Clock
b) Stop Watch
c) System Clock
d) Atomic Clock
e) None of the above

7. (4) A common trend in computer hardware is:

a) Smaller, cheaper, faster
b) Bigger, cheaper, faster
c) Bigger, more expensive, slower
d) Smaller, more expensive, slower
e) None of the above

8. (4) Baud rate refers to:

a) Serial communication
b) Parallel communication
c) Synchronous communication
d) Asynchronous communication
e) Transmission speed

9. (4) Simultaneous communication between the sending device and the receiving device is called:
a) Simplex communication
b) Complex communication
c) Duplex communication
d) Half-Duplex communication
e) Full-Duplex communication

10. (4) In the serial mode of communication the data is transmitted

a) Serial by bit
b) Serial by byte
c) Serial by word
d) Serial by block
e) None of the above

11. (4). In the parallel mode of communication data is transmitted:

a) Serial by bit
b) Serial by byte
c) Serial by word
d) Serial by block
e) None of the above

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 12. (4) In a star network, the computers are connected in a:
a) In a ring
b) By a bus
c) By a LAN
d) By a server
e) By a phone

13 (4) The path of each packet in a packet switched network is determined by:
a) The host computer
b) The each node in the network
c) The dispatcher
d) The central computer
e) None of the above

14. (8) Convert 52.671875 from base 10 to base 2 52/2 26 0 .671875 X 2 = 1.34375
a) 001011.110101 26/2 13 0 .34375 X 2 = 0.6875
b) 110100.101011 13/2 6 1 .6875 X 2 = 1.375
c) 110100.110101 6/2 3 0 .375 X 2 = 0.75
d) 110101.001011 3/2 1 1 .75 X 2 = 1.5
e) None of the above ½ 0 1 .5 X 2 = 1.0

15. (8) Convert 52.671875 from base 10 to base 16

a) B.D4
b) 34.2C
c) 34.AC
d) 43.CA
e) None of the above

0011 0100. 1010 1100

16. (8) What is the integer representation of 52 on a sixteen bit computer? Show the result in hexadecimal.
a) 0034
b) 4300
c) BD4C
d) 43CA
e) None of the above

0000 0000 0011 0100

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17. (8) What is the integer representation of -52, in 2’s complement, on a sixteen bit computer? Show the result in
hexadecimal
a) 0034
b) FFCA
c) FFCB
d) FFCC
e) None of the above

1’s Comp: 1111 1111 1100 1011

2’s Comp: 1111 1111 1100 1100

18. (10) What is the floating point representation of 52.671875? Show the result in hexadecimal
a) C352 B000
b) 4352 B000
c) B000 C352
d) 4352 9000
e) None of the above

110100.101011 = .110100101011 X 2^0110 0 1000 0110 1010010 1011 0000 0000 0000

0100 0011 0101 0010 4352

1011 0000 0000 0000 B000

19. (8) What is the floating point representation of -52.671875? Show the result in hexadecimal
a) C352 B000
b) 4352 B000
c) B000 C352
d) 4352 9000
e) None of the above

1100 0011 0101 0010 C352

1011 0000 0000 0000 B000

20. (8) What characters are represented by the following two sixteen bit words?
01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100

T e s t

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