Microprocessor And Interfacing Technique Set 3

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This set of Microprocessor and Interfacing Technique Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Microprocessor And Interfacing Technique Set 3

Q1 | Which of the following register is used in the control unit of the CPU to indicate the next instruction which is to be executed ?
  • accumulator
  • index register
  • instruction decoder
  • program counter
Q2 | Which of the following is not typically found in the status register of a micro processor ?
  • overlow
  • zero result
  • negative result
  • none of the above
Q3 | The register which keeps track of the execution of a program and which contains the memory address of the instruction currently being executed is called
  • index register
  • memory address register
  • program counter
  • instruction register
Q4 | Which of the following register holds the information before going to the memory ?
  • control register
  • data register
  • accumulator
  • address register
Q5 | Which of the following register is used in the control unit of the CPU to indicate the next instruction which is to be executed
  • accumulator
  • index register
  • instruction decoder
  • program counter
Q6 | In 8086 the following has the higest priority among all the interrupts
  • nmi
  • div o
  • type 255
  • over flow
Q7 | A set of register which contain
  • data
  • memoryaddresses
  • result
  • all of these
Q8 | PC stands for:
  • program counter
  • points counter
  • paragraph counter
  • paint counter
Q9 | SP stands for:
  • status pointer
  • stack pointer
  • a and b
  • none of these
Q10 | Causing a flag to became 0 is called:
  • clearing a flag
  • case a flag
  • both a and b
  • none of these
Q11 | Which are the flags of status register:
  • over flow flag
  • carry flag/ interrupt flag
  • zero flag
  • all of these
Q12 | executed:
  • instruction register
  • register
  • both a and b
  • none of these
Q13 | The subprogram finish the return instruction recovers the return address from the:
  • stack
  • queue
  • accumulator
  • data register
Q14 | The processor uses the stack to keep track of where the items are stored on it this by using the:
  • stack pointer register
  • queue pointer register
  • both a & b
  • none ofthese
Q15 | Stack words on:
  • lilo
  • lifo
  • fifo
  • none ofthese
Q16 | Which is the basic stack operation:
  • push
  • pop
  • both a and b
  • none of these
Q17 | SP stand for:
  • stack pointer
  • stack pop
  • stack push
  • none of these
Q18 | How many bit stored by status register:
  • 1 bit
  • 2 bit
  • 3 bit
  • 4 bit
Q19 | The structure of the stack is type structure:
  • first in last out
  • last in last out
  • both a & b
  • none of these
Q20 | The 16 bit register is separated into groups of 4 bit where each groups is called:
  • bcd
  • nibble
  • half byte
  • none of these
Q21 | A 16 bit address bus can generate addresses:
  • 32767
  • 25652
  • 65536
  • none of these
Q22 | The processor 80386/80486 and the Pentium processor uses bits address bus:
  • 16
  • 32
  • 36
  • 64
Q23 | CPU can read & write data by using :
  • control bus
  • data bus
  • address bus
  • none of these
Q24 | Which bus transfer singles from the CPU to external device and others that carry singles from external device to th
  • control bus
  • data bus
  • address bus
  • none of these
Q25 | Using 12 binary digits how many unique house addresses would be possible:
  • 28=256
  • 212=4096
  • 216=65536
  • none of these