ICS Final 2024

Which of the Boolean operations produces the output 1 for the fewest number of input patterns?

AND

Which bit pattern represents the value 9 in two’s complement notation?

00001001

Which of the following is not contained in a CPU?

Program counter

Which of the following instructions changes the contents of a memory cell?

30AB

Which of the following instructions changes the contents of register 7?

4057

Which of the following locations is information most readily available for manipulation by the CPU?

General-purpose registers

An ARM based processor is an example of what kind of computer architecture?

RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture

Which of the following is an activity?

Process

Which of the following is a representation?

Program

Add and interpret validity: 1011 + 1010

0101 (invalid)

Add and interpret validity: 1001 + 0011

1100 (valid)

Convert hexadecimal value to binary: 0×7C

01111100

What decimal value is represented by the following hexadecimal coded two’s complement value: 0×7C

6

What fraction or mixed number is represented by the following hexadecimal coded book format floating point value: 0×7C

124

11011001 AND 11110000

11010000

11011001 OR 11110000

11111001

Describe the machine cycle

1. Fetch

2. Decode

3. Execute

What type of communication best describes the case where one computer tells many others the same thing at once?

Multicast

Which network protocol makes a guarantee that the message will be delivered?

TCP

Which layer of the TCP/IP hierarchy decides the direction in which message segments are transferred across the Internet?

Network

Which of the following components of an operating system handles the details associated with peripheral equipment?

Device drivers

Which of the following is not a role of a typical operating system?

Assist the computer user in the task of processing digital photographs