Computer Organization Trivia Questions
60 Questions
| Total Attempts: 101
This quiz is based on chapters 1 and 2 of Tannenbaum's Computer Organization and Architecture.
Questions and Answers
- 1.How many levels are there in contemporary multilevel machines?
- A.
3
- B.
6
- C.
7
- D.
9
- E.
10
- 2.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is the fifth level?
- 3.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is the fourth level?
- 4.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is the third level?
- 5.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is the second level?
- 6.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is the first level?
- 7.In contemporary multilevel machines, what is level zero?
- 8.In contemporary multilevel machines, what do you use to get from one level to another?
- 9.Name the two types of translators.
- 10.What translator compiles all of the source code before the execution occurs?
- 11.What translator executes the program as it translates?
- 12.Which translator requires source code to execute?
- 13.Which computer generation saw mechanical computers (1642-1945)?
- 14.Which computer generation saw vacuum tubes (1945-1955)?
- 15.Which computer generation saw transistors (1955-1965)?
- 16.Which computer generation saw integrated circuits (1965-1980)?
- 17.Which computer generation saw very large scale integration (1980 - current)?
- 18.What was the biggest enemy of computers in the first generation?
- 19.What architecture is in almost every one of today's computing machines?
- 20.What states that the number of transistors that can be put in a chip will increase by 60% annually.
- 21.
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Please list the components in numerical order separated by a comma and a space. - 22.
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The following is an example of what type of architecture? - 23.What does RAID stand for?
- 24.What are the three properties that you can get from a RAID?
- 25.What is the reflective surface of optical media that reflects light to a sensor called?
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