Computer Organization Questions and Answers – Basic Operational Concept

This set of Computer Organization and Architecture Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Basic Operational Concept”.

1. The decoded instruction is stored in ______
a) IR
b) PC
c) Registers
d) MDR
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2. The instruction -> Add LOCA, R0 does _______
a) Adds the value of LOCA to R0 and stores in the temp register
b) Adds the value of R0 to the address of LOCA
c) Adds the values of both LOCA and R0 and stores it in R0
d) Adds the value of LOCA with a value in accumulator and stores it in R0
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3. Which registers can interact with the secondary storage?
a) MAR
b) PC
c) IR
d) R0
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4. During the execution of a program which gets initialized first?
a) MDR
b) IR
c) PC
d) MAR
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5. Which of the register/s of the processor is/are connected to Memory Bus?
a) PC
b) MAR
c) IR
d) Both PC and MAR
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6. ISP stands for _________
a) Instruction Set Processor
b) Information Standard Processing
c) Interchange Standard Protocol
d) Interrupt Service Procedure
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7. The internal components of the processor are connected by _______
a) Processor intra-connectivity circuitry
b) Processor bus
c) Memory bus
d) Rambus
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8. ______ is used to choose between incrementing the PC or performing ALU operations.
a) Conditional codes
b) Multiplexer
c) Control unit
d) None of the mentioned
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9. The registers, ALU and the interconnection between them are collectively called as _____
a) process route
b) information trail
c) information path
d) data path
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10. _______ is used to store data in registers.
a) D flip flop
b) JK flip flop
c) RS flip flop
d) None of the mentioned
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