Prelim Exams in Logic Circuits and Design 1.

What is the largest decimal number that can be represented with 8 bits? Ans. 255 2. How many discrete states can be represented with 6 bits? Ans. 64 3. How many bits does it take to represent the number 3875 in binary? Ans. 12 bits 4. What is the most commonly use binary codes in data communications? Ans. ASCII Code 5. It is a digital code used to minimize errors in data conversion. Ans. Parity Code 6. This digital code is considered as the best man-machine communications. Ans. Binary Coded Decimal 7. It is used to designate a word as an 8-bit binary number. Ans. Octal 8. What is the best word to describe a resulting circuit when multiple gates are interconnected to perform a specific function? Ans. Logic Circuit 9. If A (1) = A. What Boolean Algebra Law is being applied? Ans. Identity Law 10. If A A = A. What Boolean Algebra Law is being applied? Ans. Idempotent Law 11. If A + AB = A. What Boolean Algebra Law is being applied? Ans. Absorption Law 12. If A + 1 = 1. What Boolean Algebra Law is being applied? Ans. Annulment Law

13. Based on binary word which represents the smallest unit of information in many applications. Ans. Bit 14. Give the name of the person who develops the Boolean algebra in 1854. Ans. George Boole 15. Is a system in which the value or magnitude of a number is defined not only by its digit or symbol value, but also by its position? Ans. Positional Notation 16. What does the base, or radix of a number system tells you about the system? Ans. Number of Characteristics 17. What is the notation called by placing the symbol + or at the left of the number in the decimal system? Ans. Signed Magnitude 18. What is the propagation time fir a signal to travel through a gate? Ans. 10 ns 19. It is a gate that can be wired to function like any other gate. Ans. Universal Gate 20. Refers to the ability of a logic circuit to withstand noise imposed on its input signal. Ans. Noise Immunity 21. If X is low, what is the state of X AND Y? Ans. Low 22. Which of the following might normally represent 1 in negative logic? Ans. 0 V 23. What do you call a logic gate that has an output of 1 only if a single output is 1? Ans. XOR 24. What signal represents the true signal in a truth table? Ans. One

25. It is a gate which has 2 or more low input signals to get low output. Ans. OR 26. It is a device which can test all pins of an IC at the same time. Ans. Logic Clip 27. When a logic circuit rejects unwanted signals, this is termed as. Ans. Noise Margin 28. A digital word consisting of only four bits is called. Ans. Nibble 29. Speed of a logic circuit is normally expressed as. Ans. Propagation Delay 30. A separately packaged circuit element with its own external connections is called a _____ component. Ans. Discrete 31. What is the simplest type of switch? Ans. Knife Switch 32. Which of the following logic families has the lowest power consumption? Ans. CMOS 33. It is a gate that supplies an output unless it receives a pulse on both input wires. Ans. NAND Gate 34. What is the process of designing more than 100 gates on a single chip? Ans. LSI 35. There is a non-zero integer whose number of digits is D in decimal and B in binary. What is the best expression that correctly describes the relationship between D and B? Ans. 36. In an 8-bit code, how many cases are there where the number of 0 bits equals the number of 1 bits? Ans. 70

37. What will be the result if you subtract a hexadecimal number 2C from the decimal number 100, and then subtract again octal number 70? Ans. 0 38. The byte (B) is a data unit processed by a computer where 1B = 8 bit. How many bits in 0.5 GB? Ans. 4000000000 39. Given the bit strings x = 1100 and y = 1010, what operation yields the string 1011? Ans. OR Y

40. Something used to complete something else. Ans. Complements 41. What are this gates that have no unique outputs? Ans. Exclusive Gates 42. The any or all gate. Ans. OR 43. The either but not both gate. Ans. XOR 44. The all or nothing gate. ANS. XNOR 45. Is a digit within a number (whole or fractional) that has the largest effect (weighing power) on that number? Ans. MSB 46. What do you call for a system that possesses both digital and analog quantities? Ans. Hybrid 47. Are used in digital computers for simplifying the subtraction operation and for logical manipulations? Ans. Complements 48. How many of NAND gates needed to form an OR gate function. Ans. Three

49. What do you call a circuit that changes pure binary code into ASCII? Ans. Code Converter 50. What type of logic gates are added to a parallel adder to enable it to subtract? Ans. XOR 51. What do you call for the quantity to which an addend is added? Ans. Augends 52. Which represent the smallest unit of information in many applications? Ans. Nibble 53. To cause a three-state buffer to output 0-1 levels, the following must be true: Ans. The output enable must be false 54. What theorem thus the expression tells about: A + (B + C) = (A + B) + C. Ans. Associative 55. How many bytes are needed in order to represent a signed six-digit decimal number as a packed decimal? Ans. 4 Bytes 56. A description of the input or output conditions of a logic gate. Ans. Truth Table