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Quiz #1

1. Which of the following processing unit is mainly used to process images or 3D animation?
Answer: GPU
2. What element in a computer system is used as an interface to communicate with the users?
Answer: Ports
3. Which microprocessor model below is the world’s first microprocessor?
Answer: Intel 4004
4. What manufacturing technology was used in the manufacturing of the Intel 4004
microprocessor?
Answer: 10um
5. How many transistors does the Intel 4004 contain?
Answer: 2300
6. Which of the following is not the major part of a computer system?
Answer: Storage
7. Which of the following is not the classification of microprocessor instruction set?
Answer: Disc
8. Which of the following devices is not, in essence, a computer?
Answer: DVD Player
9. What benchmarking application is commonly used to determine the computing capacity of a
supercomputer?
Answer: Linpack
10. What company manufactures the Xbox gaming console?
Answer: Microsoft
11. Which among the processor specifications has the least effect on its computing
performance?
Answer: Packaging
12. What is the term for the set sequential instructions that is created to make processor
perform a certain function or task?
Answer: Program
13. Which type of processor listed below is the most suitable for voice recognition or voice
synthesis?
Answer: DSP
14. Which processor of the following is the brand is used by Intel to market their server grade
microprocessors?
Answer: Xeon
15. Which of the following is not a component of the system bus?
Answer: Peripheral Bus
16. In the acronym SPARC, what does “S” stand for?
Answer: Scalable
17. In the acronym SOC, what does “C” stand for?
 Answer: Chip
18. What micro architecture does the apple A7 CPU use?
Answer: ARM
19. In the acronym TDP, what does “P” stand for?
Answer: Power
20. In the acronym FLOPs, what does “S” stands for?
Answer: Second
21. Among the different types of listed computer below, which one has the greatest computing
capacity?
Answer: Supercomputer
22. What element is not included in the mobile device SOC?
Answer: Modem
23. Which of the following is strictly NOT an input device or peripheral?
Answer: LCD Screen
24. In the acronym DIP, what does “D” stand for?
Answer: Dual
25. A processor chip has 5000 transistors. If an active transistor uses 1mW of power, what is the
total if all transistors are active?
Answer: 5 Watts
26. What year was the Intel 4004 released to the market?
Answer: 1971
27. In the acronym ARM, what does “M” stand for?
Answer: Machine
28. In computers, it is the combination of instruction that a CPU will execute is called a
_______.
Answer: Program
29. What operation system does majority of mobile devices typically use?
Answer: Android
30. What processor micro architecture is actively compatible with the Windows Operating
System?
Answer: x86
 QUIZ #2

1. Which of the following desktop processor model belong to the entry-level segment?
Answer: AMD Ryzen 3
2. This processor unit is designed for general purpose computing applications.
Answer: MPU
3. Which CPU model listed below does not belong to the group?
Answer: Athlon
4. Which CPU model listed below is not manufactured by AMD?
Answer: Xeon
5. This device or devices handle communications and control between the different elements in
a computer system.
Answer: Chipset
6. What is the meaning of AGP/
Answer: Accelerated Graphics Port
7. A Microchip produced IC with the acronym PIC, what do I stand for?
Answer: Interface
8. Which of the following is not a graphics processing unit implementation used in Personal
Computer?
Answer: Specialized
9. Among the graphics processor brands listed below, identify which one does not belong to the
group?
Answer: GeForce
10. What processing unit is the combination of a CPU and GPU in a single chip?
Answer: APU
11. What processing unit is most efficient in processing and prioritizing data packets for faster
data transmission?
Answer: NPU
12. Which processing unit is most suitably used for analysis and processing of static images?
Answer: GPU
13. Among the following mobile phone makers listed below, which one has the largest market
share as of today 2019?
Answer: Huawei
14. In the acronym RADAR, what does “D” stand for?
Answer: Detection
15. In what layer in the OSI layer does switches and routers operate?
Answer: Layer 3
16. Which processing unitis most suitably used for rendering and 3D modelling?
Answer: GPU
17. Which processing unit is most suitably used for data encryption, compression and hashing?
Answer: CPU
18. Which processing unit is most suitably used for computations involving fluid dynamics, finite
element analysis and object fracturing analysis?
Answer: PPU
19. Which of the following parameters is not controlled by the ECU of an automobile?
Answer: Brake Wear Level
20. It is an automotive term that refers to the vehicle’s self diagnostic and reporting capability.
Answer: OBD
21. In the acronym SATA, what does “T” stand for?
Answer: Technology
22. In the acronym ARM, what does “M” stand for?
Answer: Machine
23. What GPU implementation offers the least performance?
Answer: Embedded
24. In the acronym GDDR-SDRAM, what does “S” stand for?
Answer: Synchronous
25. Which of the following types of ROMs is UV light?
Answer: EPROM
26. A Ryzen 3 2200U APU belong to what generation of the ZEN architecture?
Answer: 3rd
27. Which of the following components is not found in a microcontroller unit?
Answer: CPU
28. In the acronym PCIx, what does “x” stand for?
Answer: Extended
29. The CPU and the MCH are connected together using what bus?
Answer: Front Side Bus
30. It is an American fabless semiconductor company with R&D center in China that designs
GPUs used by Samsung Tablets.
Answer: Vivante
 Quiz #3
1. It is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer into a single chip.
Answer: SOC
2. Signals that are continuous in nature, with varying amplitude at every instant on time.
Answer: Analog
3. In the acronym UART, what does “A” mean?
Answer: Asynchronous
4. In the acronym SPI, what does “P” mean?
Answer: Peripheral
5. It is a family of mobile systems on a chip designed by Qualcomm.
Answer: Hexagon
6. The Cortex A8 core SoC design is based on that ARM instruction set.
Answer: Version 7
7. Modern mobile phones come with multi-SIM features. One of its features is the DSDA mode.
What is the meaning of DSDA?
Answer: Dual SIM Dual Active
8. In the acronym HSPA, what does “A” stand for?
Answer: Access
9. A display having a Full HD resolution contains how many vertical pixels?
Answer: 1080p
10. In the acronym LCD, what does “C” stand for?
Answer: Crystal
11. What is the meaning of the acronym SIM?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module
12. Which of the following is a 3G mobile data access technology?
Answer: HSPA
13. Which of the following is a Huawei brand?
Answer: Ascend
14. What does OTG mean?
Answer: On The Go
15. Which SoC manufacturer was the first to announce the world’s first 5-in-1 wireless SoC?
Answer: MediaTek
16. Which Nvidia product specializes in system on chip graphics implementation?
Answer: Tegra

17. Which Nvidia product specializes in professional digital content creation for workstation?
Answer: Quadro
18. What company manufactures the Iconia Tab?
Answer: Acer
19. The RAZR brand of mobile phones is manufactured by what company?
Answer: Motorola
20. The IdeaPad tablet is manufactured by what company?
Answer: Lenovo
21. The new Raspberry PI 4 Model B uses an ARM Cortex A72 processor based on what ARM
version?
Answer: Version 8
22. The new Raspberry PI 4 Model B is capable of displaying up to 4k resolution. How many
vertical pixels does 4K have?
Answer: 2160p
23. Which semiconductor company manufactures the PSoC?
Answer: Cypress Semiconductor
24. OpenGL is an application programming interface for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics in
GPUs. What does GL mean?
Answer: Graphics Library
25. The Exynos SoC is manufactured by what company?
Answer: Samsung
26. The PS3 gaming console is manufactured by ?
Answer: Sony
27. The DSP brand used in Qualcomm SoCs is known as ________.
Answer: Hexagon
28. The original Snapdragon SoC is known as _________.
Answer: Scorpion
29. In the acronym HDMI, what does “M” stand for?
Answer: Multimedia
30. In the acronym OMAP, what does “A” stand for?
Answer: Application
 Quiz #4

1. Which of the instruction set architecture listed below is the most common?
Answer: RISC
2. Which part of the computer system architecture is directly related to programming?
Answer: instruction set architecture
3. The equivalent symbols used to represent the instructions for assembly language
programming are called _________.
Answer: Mnemonic
4. In the instruction set architecture with the acronym MISC, what does the letter “M” stand
for?
Answer: Minimal
5. A quality of a good instruction set that enable it to be applicable to old and new application.
Answer: Compatability
6. In the generic x86 generation of microprocessors, which one follows the 80486?
Answer: Pentium
7. The following stated reason requires a new and different micro architecture design, except
what?
Answer: increased demand (di ko sure)
8. A small semiconductor block of material that contains all the electronic components of an
integrated circuit is called a ______.
Answer: Die
9. What is another term used for the manufacturing technology used in the fabrication of
semiconductor chips?
Answer: Lithography (di ko sure)
10. Which of the following Intel processor micro architecture is not used for the Core i series?
Answer: NetBurst
11. The Intel Kaby Lake micro architecture is manufactured using what manufacturing process?
Answer: 14nm
12. The AMD Trinity Core codename belongs to what micro architecture?
Answer: Piledriver
13. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a RISC architecture?
Answer: less number of registers
14. Which of the following is not part of ISA?
Answer: power levels
15. Which of the following is a characteristic of a RISC micro architecture?
Answer: compiler is easy to design
16. Which of the following has the least effect in determining a computer system’s
performance?
Answer: operating system
17. Which processor architecture has a very rich and diverse set of commands to accomplish
different tasks?
Answer: CISC
18. Which processor architecture is used in AMD’s Ryzen 3600x micro architecture?
Answer: Zen 2
19. The AMD Phenom and Sempron processors are based on what micro architecture?
Answer: K10
20. The Microsoft Windows operating system is natively designed to work on what micro
architecture?
Answer: x86
21. The Intel Core i7 7700K microprocessor is based on what micro architecture?
Answer: Kaby Lake
22. The Intel Core i7 4770K microprocessor is based on what micro architecture?
Answer: Haswell
23. The Intel Lynnfield die belongs to what micro architecture design?
Answer: Nehalem
24. A processor executes 80,000 additions in 20 milliseconds. If the clock frequency is 10 KHz,
what is the processor’s IPC?
Answer:
25. A processor has a clock of 5MHz and an average IPC of 10. How many MIPS can it execute?
(Note: MIPS = million instruction per second)
Answer:
26. A processor is capable of executing 10 MIPS. If it the clock is 20MHz, find the value of its
average CPI.
Answer:
27. What is the ideal value for the IPC of a RISC based microprocessor?
Answer:
28. How long will it take for a CPU to execute 50 million instruction if the clock is 200MHz and
CPI = 15?
Answer:
29. What is the clock frequency of a CPU it is capable of 60 MIPS with an IPC of?
Answer:
30. Which of the following is an awkward definition of the acronym IPC?
Answer: instruction per clock (di ko sure)
 Quiz #5
1. Which computer architecture is can both read an instruction and perform data memory
access at the same time.
Answer: Harvard Architecture
2. It is the measure of the maximum theoretical rate at which data is transmitted.
Answer: Bandwidth
3. Which of the following is not a source of latency?
Answer: input delay
4. A multi-core superscalar processor is an example of this processor configuration.
Answer: MIMD
5. An example of this processor configuration is used in graphics processing units.
Answer: SIMD
6. This is not common processor architecture and is generally used for fault tolerance.
Answer: MISD
7. This is used in heterogeneous system that operates on the same data stream and must agree
on the result.
Answer: MISD
8. Which of the following is not an example of a computer system operating system?
Answer: TWITCH
9. What processor architecture is used in Microsoft Xbox One?
Answer: x86
10. In the DOS operating system acronym, what does “D” stand for?
Answer: Disk Operating System
11. Which of the following is not a computer architecture sub-category?
Answer: memory addressing
12. It is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create
components?
Answer: computer architecture
13. What design implementation involves the use of truth tables?
Answer: Logic implementation
14. What design implementation involves logic equations or logic gates that are implemented
on a transistor level at the transistor level?
Answer: Circuit implementation
15. Who among the following is not a founder of Apple?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
16. In the acronym ASIC, what does the letter “S” stand for?
Answer: Application-Specific integrated circuit
17. The GameCube video game console was produced by what famous company?
Answer: Nintendo
18. The processor architecture is used by Apple’s Macintosh Computers during early of 2000’s
Answer: PowerPC
19. It is the microprocessor architecture which is licensed to Texas Instruments, Cypress and
Fujitsu.
Answer: SPARC
20. This microprocessor architecture is used in Sony’s PSP handheld gaming console.
Answer: MIPS
21. In the acronym CDN, what does the letter “C” stand for?
Answer: Content Delivery Network
22. What is the throughput if you are downloading a 512KB file, with a download time of 2.2
seconds and 0.8 seconds latency?
Answer:
23. Which connection is best for watching Ultra HD movies using video streaming services?
Answer: 100Mbps, 1000ms latency
24. Which connection is best for online FPS gaming or playing other e-sports gaming?
Answer: 25 Mbps, 10ms latency
25. What computer architecture is supported by nearly all modern operating systems?
Answer: x86
26. What architecture is used by almost all mobile devices in the market?
Answer: ARM
27. Which company bought MIPS Technologies in December 2012?
Answer: Imagination Technologies
28. Which Apple designed SoC is used in the iPhone XS?
Answer: A12
29. What processor architecture is used in Microsoft Xbox 360?
Answer: PowerPC
30. Which company bought Sun Microsystems that originally designed the SPARC
microarchitecture?
Answer: Oracle