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51.

What is the nominal range of Bluetooth?

A. 1 km
B. 10 m
C. 1 m
D. 10 km
Answer» C. 1 m
52.

Which of the following specifies a set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer specifications for implementing WLANs?

A. ieee 802.16
B. ieee 802.3
C. ieee 802.11
D. ieee 802.15
Answer» D. ieee 802.15
53.

 Bluetooth operates in which band?

A. ka band
B. l band
C. ku band
D. 2.4 ghz ism band
Answer» E.
54.

Which one of the following offers CPUs as integrated memory or peripheral interfaces?

A. microcontroller
B. microprocessor
C. embedded system
D. memory system
Answer» B. microprocessor
55.

Which of the following offers external chips for memory and peripheral interface circuits?

A. microcontroller
B. microprocessor
C. peripheral system
D. embedded system
Answer» C. peripheral system
56.

Which one of the following is the successor of 8086 and 8088 processor?

A. 80386
B. 80286
C. 80288
D. 80388
Answer» C. 80288
57.

Which of the following processor possess memory management?

A. 80286
B. 80386
C. 8086
D. 8088
Answer» B. 80386
58.

Beyond IP, UDP provides additional services such as _______

A. routing and switching
B. sending and receiving of packets
C. multiplexing and demultiplexing
D. demultiplexing and error checking
Answer» E.
59.

What kind of socket does an external EPROM to plugged in for prototyping?

A. piggyback
B. single socket
C. multi-socket
D. piggyback reset socket
Answer» B. single socket
60.

Which is the single device capable of providing prototyping support for a range of microcontroller?

A. rom
B. umbrella device
C. otp
D. ram
Answer» C. otp
61.

Which of the following can determine if two masters start to use the bus at the same time?

A. counter detect
B. collision detect
C. combined format
D. auto-incremental counter
Answer» C. combined format
62.

Which among the below stated lines represent the handshaking variant usually and only controlled by the software in the handshaking process?

A. xon/ xoff
B. dcd & gnd
C. txd & rxd
D.  all of the above
Answer» B. dcd & gnd
63.

Which of the following provides an efficient method for transferring data from a peripheral to memory?

A. dma controller
B. serial port
C. parallel port
D. dual port
Answer» B. serial port
64.

______ is a technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks like the Internet.

A. voip
B. gsm
C. modem
D. cdma
Answer» B. gsm
65.

Which types of an embedded systems involve the coding at a simple level in an embedded 'C', without any necessity of RTOS?

A. sophisticated embedded systems
B. medium scale embedded systems
C. small scale embedded systems
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
66.

While designing an embedded system, which sub-task oriented process allocates the time steps for various modules that share the similar resources?

A. simulation and validation
B. iteration
C. hardware-software partitioning
D. scheduling
Answer» E.
67.

Which development tool can facilitate the creation and modification of source programs in addition to assembly and higher -level languages?

A. compiler
B. linker
C. assembler
D. editor
Answer» E.
68.

The step where in the results stored in the temporary register is transferred into the permanent register is called as ______

A. final step
B. commitment step
C. last step
D. inception step
Answer» C. last step
69.

Which of the following has a quadruple buffered receiver and a double buffered transmitter?

A. intel 8250
B. 16450
C. 16550
D. mc68681
Answer» E.
70.

For applications that demand very high data-processing requirements, or if double precision floating point calculation is needed, then best choice will be

A. cortex-m0 processor
B. cortex-m3 processor
C. cortex-m7 processor
D. cortex-m0+ processor
Answer» D. cortex-m0+ processor
71.

Which standard govern parallel communications?

A. RS232
B. RS-232a
C. CAT 5
D. IEEE 1284
Answer» E.
72.

Which abstraction level undergo the compilation process by converting a sequential program into finite-state machine and register transfers while designing an embedded system?

A. system
B. behaviour
C. rt
D. logic
Answer» C. rt
73.

Which characteristics of an embedded system exhibit the responsiveness to the assortments or variations in system's environment by computing specific results for real-time applications without any kind of postponement ?

A. single-functioned characteristic
B. tightly-constraint characteristics
C. reactive & real time characteristics
D. all of the above
Answer» D. all of the above
74.

How may standard levels of interrupts are provided on the 8-bit ISA bus (XT-class computer)?

A. 4
B. 8
C. 12
D. 16
Answer» C. 12
75.

The acronym HDI stands for: The acronym HDI stands for:

A. Half duplex interface
B. Hard disk
C. Hard disk interface
D. Help desk interference
Answer» D. Help desk interference
76.

The best mode of connection between devices which need to send or receive large amounts of data over a short distance is _____

A. Bus
B. Serial Port
C. Parallel port
D. Isochronous port
Answer» D. Isochronous port
77.

______ is used as an intermediate to extend the processor BUS.

A. Bridge
B. Router
C. Gateway
D. Connector
Answer» B. Router
78.

The system developed by IBM with ISA architecture is ______

A. SPARK
B. SUN-SPARK
C. PC-AT
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
79.

The PCI BUS supports _____ address space/s.

A. I/O
B. Memory
C. Configuration
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
80.

The usual BUS structure used to connect the I/O devices is ___________

A. Star BUS structure
B. Multiple BUS structure
C. Single BUS structure
D. Node to Node BUS structure
Answer» D. Node to Node BUS structure
81.

The CPU hardware has a wire called __________ that the CPU senses after executing every instruction.

A. interrupt request line
B. interrupt bus
C. interrupt receive line
D. interrupt sense line
Answer» B. interrupt bus
82.

The _________ determines the cause of the interrupt, performs the necessary processing and executes a return from the interrupt instruction to return the CPU to the execution state prior to the interrupt.

A. interrupt request line
B. device driver
C. interrupt handler
D. All of Above
Answer» D. All of Above
83.

The method of accessing the I/O devices by repeatedly checking the status flags is ___________

A. Memory-mapped I/O
B. Program-controlled I/O
C. I/O mapped
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. I/O mapped
84.

The classification of BUSes into synchronous and asynchronous is based on __________

A. The devices connected to them
B. The type of data transfer
C. The Timing of data transfers
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
85.

In synchronous BUS, the devices get the timing signals from __________

A. Timing generator in the device
B. A common clock line
C. The Timing of data transfers
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. The Timing of data transfers
86.

The transformation between the Parallel and serial ports is done with the help of ______

A. Flip flops
B. Logic circuits
C. Shift registers
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
87.

Which of the following is the type of SPI controller?

A. Queued SPI
B. Microwire
C. Microwire/plus
D. Quad SPI
Answer» B. Microwire
88.

The technique in which the CPU generates physical addresses directly is known as ____________

A. a) relocation register method
B. b) real addressing
C. virtual addressing
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. virtual addressing
89.

In rate monotonic scheduling ____________

A. a) shorter duration job has higher priority
B. b) longer duration job has higher priority
C. priority does not depend on the duration of the job
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. b) longer duration job has higher priority
90.

VxWorks is centered around ___________

A. a) wind microkernel
B. b) linux kernel
C. unix kernel
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. b) linux kernel
91.

 What is Event latency?

A. a) the amount of time an event takes to occur from when the system started
B. b) the amount of time from the event occurrence till the system stops
C. the amount of time from event occurrence till the event crashes
D. the amount of time that elapses from when an event occurs to when it is serviced.
Answer» E.
92.

Real time systems need to __________ the interrupt latency.

A. minimize
B. maximize
C. not bother about
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. maximize
93.

The most effective technique to keep dispatch latency low is to ____________

A. a) provide non preemptive kernels
B. b) provide preemptive kernels
C. make it user programmed
D. run less number of processes at a time
Answer» C. make it user programmed
94.

In a real time system the computer results ____________

A. a) must be produced within a specific deadline period
B. b) may be produced at any time
C. may be correct
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. b) may be produced at any time
95.

Earliest deadline first algorithm assigns priorities according to ____________

A. a) periods
B. b) deadlines
C. burst times
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. burst times
96.

In real time operating system ____________

A. a) all processes have the same priority
B. b) a task must be serviced by its deadline period
C. process scheduling can be done only once
D. kernel is not required
Answer» C. process scheduling can be done only once
97.

A process P1 has a period of 50 and a CPU burst of t1 = 25, P2 has a period of 80 and a CPU burst of 35. The total CPU utilization is ____________

A. a) 0.90
B. b) 0.74
C. 0.94
D. 0.80
Answer» D. 0.80
98.

A process P1 has a period of 50 and a CPU burst of t1 = 25, P2 has a period of 80 and a CPU burst of 35., the priorities of P1 and P2 are?

A. a) remain the same throughout
B. b) keep varying from time to time
C. may or may not be change
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. may or may not be change
99.

Using EDF algorithm practically, it is impossible to achieve 100 percent utilization due to __________

A. a) the cost of context switching
B. b) interrupt handling
C. power consumption
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. b) interrupt handling
100.

. In a real time system the computer results ____________

A. a) must be produced within a specific deadline period
B. b) may be produced at any time
C. may be correct
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» B. b) may be produced at any time