CSF3243 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE

LOGIC GATES (PRACTICE PROBLEMS)

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1. The output of a logic gate is ‘1’ when all its input is at logic 0. The gate is either

A. NAND or an EX-OR gate

B. NOR or an EX-NOR gate
C. an OR or an EX NOR gate
D. an AND or an EX-OR gate

2. A bulb in a staircase has two switches, one switch being on the ground floor and the
other one on the first floor. The bulb can be turned ON and also can be turned OFF by
one of the switches irrespective of the state of the other switch. The logic of switching off
the bulb resembles.

A. an AND gate
B. an OR gate
C. an XOR gate
D. a NAND gate

3. A Boolean function f of two variables X and Y is defined as follows:

f(0, 0) = f(0, 1) = f(1, 1) = 1; f(1, 0) = 0
Assuming complements of X and Y are not available, a minimum cost solution for
realizing using only 2-input NOR gates and 2-input OR gates (each having unit cost) would
have a total cost of

A. 1 unit
B. 2 units
C. 3 units
D. 4 units

4. The Boolean expression for the output of the EX-NOR (equivalence) logic gate with inputs
A and B is

A. 𝐴𝐵̅ + 𝐴̅𝐵
B. 𝐴̅𝐵̅ + 𝐴𝐵
C. (𝐴̅ + 𝐵) (𝐴 + 𝐵̅)
D. (𝐴̅ + 𝐵̅) (𝐴 + 𝐵)
5. The output of the logic gate in the figure is

A. 0 C. 𝐴̅
B. 1 D. A

6. For the circuit shown below the output F is given by

X
F

A. 𝐹 = 1 C. 𝐹 = 𝑋
B. 𝐹 = 0 D. 𝐹 = 𝑋̅

7. For the logic circuit shown in the figure, the required input condition (A, B, C) to make the
output X =1 is

A
B

C X

A. 1,0,1 C. 1,0,1
B. 0,0,1 D. 1,1,1

8. For the output F to be 1 in the logic circuit shown, the input combination should be
 A
B

(a) 𝐴 = 1, 𝐵 = 1, 𝐶 = 1 (c) 𝐴 = 0, 𝐵 = 1, 𝐶 = 0
(b) 𝐴 = 1, 𝐵 = 0, 𝐶 = 0 (d) 𝐴 = 0, 𝐵 = 0, 𝐶 = 1

9. The output of the circuit shown is equal to

A
B

(a) 0 (c) 𝐴̅𝐵 + 𝐴𝐵̅

(b) 1 (d) (𝐴 ⊕ 𝐵) ⊕ (𝐴 ⊕ 𝐵)