Microprocessor Concepts and Operations Quiz

Which component is primarily responsible for detecting and reporting issues during bus operations?

Which register holds the memory address of the next instruction to be fetched?

What is the term for a signal that requires immediate attention, suspending the current process to perform a specific action?

Which flag primarily dictates the direction of data processing during string operations?

Which instruction facilitates the movement of data or memory addresses into a register?

Which instruction is used to push all flag registers onto the stack?

A word data type is equivalent to which of the following sizes?

Which of the following describes the characteristic of the second generation of microprocessors?

What does Moore's Law primarily describe?

Which of the following microprocessors was NOT an advance from Intel?

In which year was the first practical integrated circuit developed?

Who developed the first single general-purpose chip that could be programmed?

Which of the following is NOT a stated vision of Mapua Institute of Technology?

What does Mapua Institute aim to provide through its learning environment?

Which of the following is NOT a type of RAM?

What is the specialized parallel operation that facilitates data transfer from a hard disk to a microcomputer's memory?

Which type of instruction is primarily used to move data between registers, memory locations, and external devices?

What is the term for a hardware-triggered event that temporarily halts the processor's current instruction execution to execute a specific routine?

What kind of instructions are primarily responsible for performing boolean logic operations like AND, OR, and NOT, as well as operations such as shifts and rotates?

In a computer system, what is often referred to as the 'heart' and primary controller of all operations?

Which special devices are commonly used in elementary control systems because of their many integrated features?

What was the first processor in the 80x86 family that had a 16-bit architecture and was capable of addressing 1 MB of memory?

What is the term for a set of memory locations that can be accessed using a certain number in a segment register?

Intel CPUs are typically regarded as what type of endian computers, while Motorola processors are considered what other type?

What is considered the primary focus for computer designers?

What is the term for a microprocessor with added read/write memory, ROM, EEPROM, and I/O interfaces?

Who developed the method of evaporating aluminum on silicon wafers to connect transistors?

What is the term for a group of lines within a microprocessor system that have a related function?

Which of the following stores all the data and instructions first?

What causes an Overflow Flag (OF) to be set to 1?

What is the value of the Interrupt Enable Flag (IF) after the execution of the instruction CLI?

Which of these instructions is responsible for disabling interrupts?

What type of cycle does the Pentium run when it detects an interval parity error?

Which data dependency occurs when the second instruction reads an operand written by the first instruction?

Which mechanism does Pentium use to maintain cache coherency in its data cache?

What is the average access time for a system containing a 15ns cache and a 75ns RAM with a hit ratio of 0.89?