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18. A program counter is a register in a computer processor that:
a. Contains the address of the instruction being executed at the current time.
b. Is a temporary memory to hold the result of arithmetic operations
c. Contains an instruction loaded from RAM
d. None of the above


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a. Contains the address of the instruction being executed at the current
time.




The overflow bit status if adding two negative numbers yields to a positive number is:
a. 1
b. 0
c. both
d. unknown

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a. 1




What is the decimal representation of hexadecimal FF(base 16)?


a. 128
b. 256
c. 64
d. 255


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d. 255




16. What are CPU cycles during instruction processing? List in the correct order.
a. Fetch, decode, execute, write-back
b. Decode, fetch, write-back, execute
c. Execute, fetch, decode, write-back
d. Wrote-back, fetch, execute, decode


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a. Fetch, decode, execute, write-back




ASCII stands for:
a. American Standard Computer Interface Information
b. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

, c. American Standard Code for Internet Interchange
d. Aluminum Sulfate Complex with Iridium Iodine


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b. American Standard Code for Information Interchange




20. Which of the following indicates the amount of time between two pulses of an
oscillator (1 and 0) and
measures the speed of the processor?
a. Control Unit
b. Clock cycle
c. Cache
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above


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b. Clock cycle




How many unique locations can be represented with 5 bits address?
a. 64 b. 5
c. 32 d. 10


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c. 32

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