COMP QUESTION BANK UNIT-1 1. Explain the basic functional units of computer system 2.

How does the pipeline improves the performance of a machine. 3. Mention important functions of an Operating System. 4. Expalin methods to represent characters. 5. What is DMA and when it is used? 6. Distinguish between synchronous and asynchronous data transfer. 7. Distinguish between memory mapped and I/O mapped I/O. 8. What are Exceptions and its kinds? Explain. 9. What is Bus Arbitration and explain its classifications. 10. Explain the operation of DMA. OR Describe the functionalities of DMA Controller. 11. Explain the following: a) System software (Software) b) Bus Structure c) CISC and RISC OR Compare the features of RISC and CISC machine. d) Pipelining and Superscalar. Or Discuss Pipelining mechanism in detail. e) Multiprocessor and Multicomputer. f) Historical Prospective and Standard I/O Interfaces. 12. Expalin the concept of Von-Neumann machine. What are its drawbacks? 13. How can we access the I/O devices (internal accessing) and what are the three I/O Techniques (external accessing).(mention the hardware block needed in that). 14. What is an interrupt .What are the actions are carried out when an interrupt has been generated? 15. Explain the operation of Programmed I/O. OR Define Polling Concept in detail. UNIT- II 1. How the memory hierarchy does is used to obtain a high performance at reduced cost for a computer. 2. Briefly explain the concept of virtual memory. 3. A two level memory system has its access time 10-6 sec and 10-3 sec. Average access time of the hierarchy is 10-4 sec. What is the bit ratio and how to reduce the average access time from 10-4 to 10-5 sec. 4. List the advantages of hardwired control unit. 5. Explain Micro programmed control unit in detail. 6. Explain Stack and its operation in detail. 7. Explain various types of memories. 8. What is STACK and explain how stack operation takes place in nested loops. 9. Differentiate between cache memory and virtual memory. 10. Explain the different mapping functions of cache memory with an example each.

11. Write short notes on: a)secondary storages b) Difference between SRAM and DRAM. c) Repalcement policies d)FIFO,LRU ,MEMORY ACCESS TIME, Throughput UNIT-III 1. What are instructions formats? And Instruction set? 2. Write the classification of Instruction set of 8085 and give example in each case. 3. What is an addressing mode? Mention different types of addressing modes with necessary examples. 4. Expalin steps involved for execution of an instruction. 5. Explain instruction sequencing. 6. Explain the following instruction of 8085. a) SIM b) RIM c) DAA d) PCHL e) RAR f) RLC g)CMP 7. Explain the internal architecture of 8085 with a block diagram. 8. Write short notes on the following: a) HALT and HOLD states b) Subroutines 9. What are Instruction format? How does the instruction format influences the architecture and hence performance of a computer. 10. Define Instruction cycle and machine cycle and explain the instruction and data flow in detail 11. What is Timing diagram and draw the timing diagram for OPCODE FETCH ,READ,WRITE Signals of 8085. 12. Mention instruction classification based on word size. 13. Differentiate between Microprocessor and Microcontroller in detail.