Important questions

Module 1
1 How is the nature of instruction size in CISC processors?

a. Fixed
b. Variable
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
ANSWER: (b) Variable
2.  The CISC stands for ___________
a) Computer Instruction Set Compliment
b) Complete Instruction Set Compliment
c) Computer Indexed Set Components
d) Complex Instruction set computer
3. The computer architecture aimed at reducing the time of execution of instructions is ________
a) CISC
b) RISC
c) ISA
d) ANNA
4. The iconic feature of the RISC machine among the following are
a) Reduced number of addressing modes
b) Increased memory size
c) Having a branch delay slot
d) All of the mentioned
5. Both the CISC and RISC architectures have been developed to reduce the ______
a) Cost
b) Time delay
c) Semantic gap
d) All of the mentioned
6. . Out of the following which is not a CISC machine.
a) IBM 370/168
b) VAX 11/780
c) Intel 80486
d) Motorola A567
7. Pipe-lining is a unique feature of _______
a) RISC
b) CISC
c) ISA
d) IANA
8. Which of the architecture is power efficient?
a) CISC
b) RISC
c) ISA
d) IANA.
9. Which among the single operand instructions complement the accumulator without affecting any
of the flags?
a. CLR
b. SETB
 c. CPL
d. All of the above
10.  Which architecture provides separate buses for program and data memory?
a) Harvard architecture
b) Von Neumann architecture
c) None of the mentioned
d) All of the mentioned
11.  8051 is the first microcontroller of the MCS-51 family introduced by _______ at the end of the
1970s.
Ans. Intel Corporation
a) Motorola
b) Intel
c) None of the mentioned
d) All of the mentioned
12.  Which of the two architecture saves memory?
a) Harvard
b) Von Neumann
c) None of the mentioned
d) Both of the mentioned

Module 2
1.  How is data detected in a UART?
a) counter
b) timer
c) clock
d) first bit

2. What rate can define the timing in the UART?

a) bit rate
b) baud rate
c) speed rate
d) voltage rate

3. How is the baud rate supplied?

a) baud rate voltage
b) external timer
c) peripheral
d) internal timer

4. What is the execution speed of instructions in PIC especially while operating at the maximum value of
clock rate?
a. 0.1 μs
b. 0.2 μs
c. 0.4 μs
d. 0.8 μs
5. How many clock pulses are confined by each machine cycle of Peripheral-Interface Controllers?
a. 4
b. 8
c. 12
d. 16
6. If we say microcontroller is 8-bit then here 8-bit denotes size of:
a) Data Bus
b) ALU
c) Control Bus
d) Address Bus
7. Why microcontrollers are not called general purpose computers?
a) because they have built in RAM and ROM
b) because they design to perform dedicated task
c) because they are cheap
d) because they consume low power
8. Which of the following instructions affect the flags of the status register?
a) AND
b) INC
c) OR
d) All of the mentioned

9. What is the order decided by a processor or the CPU of a controller to execute an instruction?
a) decode,fetch,execute
b) execute,fetch,decode
c) fetch,execute,decode
d) fetch,decode,execute

10. When we add two numbers the destination address must always be.
a) some immediate data
b) any register
c) accumulator
d) memory