Module 1 Question Bank
1. Explain three major categories of machine instructions with suitable example
2. Explain the organization of main memory and memory capacity measurements.
3. Explain representing information as bit patterns.
4. Define binary digits and explain Boolean operations.
5. Explain the organization of magnetic systems, optical systems, and flash drives for mass
storage.
6. Convert each of the following 2’s complement representations into its equivalent base 10
form:
a) 00011
b) 11010
c) 01111
7. Explain CPU architecture.
8. Convert the following bit patterns to equivalent hexadecimal notation:
a) 0110101011110010
b) 01001000
9. Convert the following binary representations to equivalent base 10 form:
a) 101010
b) 100001
c) 10111
10. Perform the following additions in binary notation:
a)
11011
+ 01100
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b)
1010.001
+ 1.001
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c)
11111
+ 00001
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