CEA 201|240 Multi Choice Questions
5 - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ QN=15 Binary 0101 is hexadecimal
_________.
a. 0
b. 5
c. A
d. 10
twos complement representation - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ The
most common scheme in implementing the integer portion of the ALU
is:
a. sign-magnitude representation
b. biased representation
c. twos complement representation
,d. ones complement representation
Twos compliment - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ __________
representation is almost universally used as the processor
representation for integers.
a. Biased
b. Twos compliment
c. Sign-magnitude
d. Decimal
sign extension - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ Moving the sign bit to the
new leftmost position and filling in with copies of the sign bit is called
_________.
a. sign extension
b. range extension
c. bit extension
,d. partial extension
sign-magnitude - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ In ________
representation the rule for forming the negation of an integer is to
invert the sign bit.
a. ones complement
b. twos complement
c. biased
d. sign-magnitude
Overflow - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ ________ is when the result may
be larger than can be held in the word size being used.
a.Overflow
b. Arithmetic shift
c. Underflow
d. Partial product
, Multiplication - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ __________ involves the
generation of partial products, one for each digit in the multiplier,
which are then summed to produce the final product.
a. Addition
b. Subtraction
c. Multiplication
d. Division
mantissa - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ Although considered obsolete,
the term _________ is sometimes used instead of significand.
a. minuend
b. mantissa
c. base
d. subtrahend
5 - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ QN=15 Binary 0101 is hexadecimal
_________.
a. 0
b. 5
c. A
d. 10
twos complement representation - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ The
most common scheme in implementing the integer portion of the ALU
is:
a. sign-magnitude representation
b. biased representation
c. twos complement representation
,d. ones complement representation
Twos compliment - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ __________
representation is almost universally used as the processor
representation for integers.
a. Biased
b. Twos compliment
c. Sign-magnitude
d. Decimal
sign extension - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ Moving the sign bit to the
new leftmost position and filling in with copies of the sign bit is called
_________.
a. sign extension
b. range extension
c. bit extension
,d. partial extension
sign-magnitude - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ In ________
representation the rule for forming the negation of an integer is to
invert the sign bit.
a. ones complement
b. twos complement
c. biased
d. sign-magnitude
Overflow - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ ________ is when the result may
be larger than can be held in the word size being used.
a.Overflow
b. Arithmetic shift
c. Underflow
d. Partial product
, Multiplication - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ __________ involves the
generation of partial products, one for each digit in the multiplier,
which are then summed to produce the final product.
a. Addition
b. Subtraction
c. Multiplication
d. Division
mantissa - Correct Answer ✔ ✔ Although considered obsolete,
the term _________ is sometimes used instead of significand.
a. minuend
b. mantissa
c. base
d. subtrahend
