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251.

Conversion of a octal number 638 to its decimal number is

A. 5110
B. 6110
C. 5710
D. 5310
Answer» B. 6110
252.

Express -7 as 16-bit signed binary numbers.

A. 0000 0000 0000 0111
B. 1000 0000 0000 0111
C. . 0111 0000 0000 0001
D. 0111 0000 0000 0000
Answer» C. . 0111 0000 0000 0001
253.

Conversion of an octal number 1108 to its decimal number is

A. 7010
B. 7210
C. 7310
D. 11010
Answer» C. 7310
254.

De Morgan's second therm says that NAND gate is equivalent to a bubbled _____ gate.

A. AND
B. XAND
C. XOR
D. OR
Answer» E.
255.

_____is an abbreviation for binary digit.

A. 0 and 1
B. bingit
C. base
D. bit
Answer» E.
256.

Conversion of binary number 11000112 to hexadecimal is

A. 6316
B. 5716
C. 4616
D. 4016
Answer» B. 5716
257.

Which of the following flip-flops is free from race around problem?

A. T flip-flop
B. SR flip-flop
C. master slave JK flip-flop
D. All of the above
Answer» D. All of the above
258.

The 2's compliment of binary number 010111.1100 is

A. 101001.11
B. 101000.01
C. 10111.0011
D. 101000.0011
Answer» C. 10111.0011
259.

The ASCII

A. is a subset of 8-bit EBCDIC
B. is used only in Western Countries
C. is version II of the ASC Standard
D. has 128 characters, including 32 control characters
Answer» E.
260.

How many bytes are there in 1011 1001 0110 1110 numbers?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
Answer» C. 4
261.

When a transistor is cut off or saturated, transistor _____ have almost no effect

A. wave
B. variations
C. stage
D. circuits
Answer» C. stage
262.

Conversion of an octal number 1438 to its decimal number is

A. 9010
B. 97110
C. 9910
D. 10710
Answer» D. 10710
263.

The simplified form of the Boolean expression (X + Y + XY)(X + Z) is

A. X + Y + Z
B. XY + YZ
C. X + YZ
D. XZ + Y
Answer» D. XZ + Y
264.

The number of binary bits required to represent a hexadecimal digit is

A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer» C. 6
265.

A microprocessor has memory locations from 0000 to 3FFF. Each memory location stores 1 byte. How bytes can the memory store? Express this in kilobytes?

A. 4,095, 4K
B. 16,384, 16K
C. 32,740, 32K
D. 46,040, 46K
Answer» C. 32,740, 32K
266.

Which gates is known as universal gate?

A. NOT gate
B. AND gate
C. NAND gate
D. XOR gate
Answer» D. XOR gate
267.

In boolean algebra, the overbar stands for the NOT operation, the plus sign stands for the _____ operation.

A. AND
B. OR
C. NAND
D. NOR
Answer» C. NAND
268.

The master slave JK flip-flop is effectively a combination of

A. an SR flip-flop and a T flip-flop
B. an SR flip-flop and a D flip-flop
C. a T flip-flop and a D flip-flop
D. two T flip-flops
Answer» B. an SR flip-flop and a D flip-flop
269.

A flip-flop can store:

A. 1 bits of data
B. 2 bits of data
C. 3 bits of data
D. 4 bits of data
Answer» B. 2 bits of data
270.

De Morgan's first theorem says that a NOR gate is equivalent to a bubbled _____ gate.

A. AND
B. XAND
C. XOR
D. NOR
Answer» B. XAND
271.

With an RS latch a high S and low R sets the output to _____ ; a low S and a high R _____ the output to low.

A. No change, set
B. Race, high
C. high, reset
D. set, reset
Answer» D. set, reset
272.

What is the ASCII code for T?

A. 1010100
B. 1011010
C. 1011100
D. 1011111
Answer» B. 1011010
273.

A bus is a group of _____ carrying digital signals.

A. wires
B. gates
C. transistors
D. registers
Answer» B. gates
274.

Address 200H contains the byte 3FH. What is the decimal equivalent of 3FH

A. 63
B. 32
C. 16
D. 38
Answer» B. 32
275.

The ALU carries out arithmetic and logic operations. It processes _____ numbers rather than decimal numbers.

A. decimal
B. hexadecimal
C. binary
D. All of the above
Answer» D. All of the above
276.

The functional difference between SR flip-flop and JK flip-flop is that

A. JK flip-flop is faster than SR flip-flop
B. JK flip-flop has a feed back path
C. JK flip-flop accepts both inputs 1
D. JK flip-flop does not require external clock
Answer» D. JK flip-flop does not require external clock
277.

A p- channel enhancement type MOSFET performs much the same function as a PNP transistor, except that

A. it operates much faster
B. it is considerably larger
C. it is controlled by voltage rather than by current, so that it requires very little current at the control terminal
D. it is controlled by current rather than by voltage like a bipolar transistor.
Answer» D. it is controlled by current rather than by voltage like a bipolar transistor.
278.

Conversion of an octal number 1128 to hexadecimal number is

A. 4A16
B. 5A16
C. 1516
D. 2016
Answer» B. 5A16
279.

If a microcomputer has a 64K memory, what are the hexadecimal notations for the first and last memory location?

A. 0000, EEEE
B. 0, 64
C. 0000, FFFF
D. 0000, 9999
Answer» D. 0000, 9999
280.

How many inputs signals can a gate have?

A. one
B. more than one
C. two only
D. both (a) and (b)
Answer» E.
281.

The XOR gates are ideal for testing parity because even-parity words produce a _____ output and odd-parity words produce a _____ output

A. low, high
B. high, low
C. odd, even
D. even, odd
Answer» B. high, low
282.

The inverter OR gate and AND gate are called decision-making elements because they can recognize some input _____ while disregarding others. A gate recognizes a word when its output is _____

A. words, high
B. bytes, low
C. bytes, high
D. character, low
Answer» B. bytes, low
283.

The Gray code for decimal 7 is

A. 111
B. 1011
C. 100
D. 101
Answer» D. 101
284.

Digital design often starts by constructing a _____ table.

A. Standard
B. Two-stage
C. Truth
D. Two-dinensional
Answer» D. Two-dinensional
285.

An inverter is also called a _____ gate.

A. NOT
B. OR
C. AND
D. NAND
Answer» B. OR
286.

A binary adder is a logic circuit that can add _____ binary numbers at a time.

A. Hundreds
B. Thousands
C. One
D. Two
Answer» E.
287.

Conversion of decimal number 6110 to it's binary number equivalent is

A. 1100112
B. 110011102
C. 1111012
D. 111112
Answer» D. 111112