Explore topic-wise MCQs in Microprocessors.

This section includes 10 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Microprocessors knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

The thread level parallelism is a process of

A. saving the context of currently executing process
B. flushing the CPU of the same process
C. loading the context of new next process
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
2.

Which of the following is not a type of context switching?

A. time-slice multithreading
B. on chip multiprocessing
C. hyperthreading
D. none
Answer» E.
3.

The process in which multiple threads correspond to the tracking of each individual object is known as

A. multiple thread system
B. multi thread parallelism
C. thread level parallelism
D. multi level parallelism
Answer» D. multi level parallelism
4.

The features of thread in threading process is

A. threads can be bunched together
B. threads are simple and light weight
C. threads are independent
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
5.

The linear address space is mapped into the processors physical address space either directly or through paging by

A. flat memory model
B. segmented memory model
C. flat or segmented memory model
D. none
Answer» D. none
6.

The paging mechanism of IA-32 architecture has an extension as

A. page memory extension
B. page size extension
C. page address extension and page size extension
D. page memory extension and page size extension
Answer» D. page memory extension and page size extension
7.

The number of instructions that can be executed per clock cycle by the ALU or AGU is

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer» C. 3
8.

Pentium 4 consists of

A. 4 ALUs
B. 4 AGUs
C. 2 ALUs and 2 AGUs
D. 4 ALUs and 4 AGUs
Answer» D. 4 ALUs and 4 AGUs
9.

The AGUs work at a speed of

A. equal to that of processor
B. twice the processor
C. thrice the processor
D. none
Answer» C. thrice the processor
10.

The units that are primarily used to resolve indirect mode of memory addressing is called

A. ALU
B. AGU
C. ALU and AGU
D. NONE
Answer» C. ALU and AGU