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    In 8086 when Interrupt flag is set ____________

    A The maskable interrupts are recognised by the CPU


    B The maskable interrupts are not recognised by the CPU
    C The non-maskable interrupts are recognised by the CPU
    D None of thses
    ANSWER A

    In 8086 Parity flag is set when ____________


    A The result contain even number of 's
    B The result contain odd number of 's
    C The result contain all zeros
    D both a and b
    ANSWER A

    Which of the following is the 8 bit microprocessor?


    A 8008
    B 8080
    C 8085
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    The I/O space of 8086 is ________ .


    A 64 K Word ports
    B 64 K byte ports
    C 32 K byte ports
    D 6 K Word ports
    ANSWER B

    The 8086 is a __________ bit Microprocessor.


    A 8 bit
    B 32 bit
    C 6 bit
    D 24 bit
    ANSWER C

    The operating modes of 8086 is ______________


    A Real mode
    B Maximum mode
    C Minimum Mode
    D Both b and c
    ANSWER D

    The 8086 has ____________ data bus


    A 32 bit
    B 6 bit
    C 64 bit
    D 8 bit
    ANSWER B

    The 8086 has ____________ Address bus


    A 20 bit
    B 6 bit
    C 32 bit
    D 24 bit
    ANSWER A

    The Instruction queue of 8086 is ____________ Bytes


    A 8 bytes
    B 6 bytes
    C 8 bytes
    D 2 bytes
    ANSWER B

    What is the maximum size of each memory segment in 8086?


    A 64 kbyte
    B 32 kbyte
    C 60 kbyte
    D 8 kbyte
    ANSWER A

    What is the size of physical memory in 8086?


    A 64 Kbyte
    B Mbyte
    C 32 Kbyte
    D 24 Kbyte
    ANSWER B

    In 8086, _______ is the example for Non-maskable interrupt.


    A Trap
    B RST6.5
    C INTR
    D None of these
    ANSWER D

    Which processor structure is pipelined?


    A all x80 processors
    B all x85 processors
    C all x86 processors
    D None of these
    ANSWER C

    In 8086 the overflow flag is set when___________


    A The sum is more than 6 bits
    B Signed numbers go out of their range after an arithmetic operation
    C Carry and sign flags are set
    D During subtraction
    ANSWER B

    What is meant by Maskable interrupts?


    A An interrupt which can never be turned off.
    B An interrupt that can be turned off by the programmer.
    C An interuppt is always on
    D None of these
    ANSWER B
    Which of the following is /are the functions of BIU?
    A To send the address of memory or I/O
    B To fetch instruction from memory
    C To support instruction queuing
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    The BIU of 8086 consist of ____________


    A segment registers
    B instruction queue
    C Instruction Pointer
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    The Segment register of 8086 is __________ bit.


    A 8 bit
    B 6 bit
    C 32 bit
    D 20 bit
    ANSWER B

    The queue of 8086 operates on the principle of ___________


    A LIFO
    B FIFO
    C LILO
    D FILO
    ANSWER B

    Feature of fetching the next instruction while the current instruction is executing is called
    ____________
    A Fetching
    B Pipelining
    C Execution
    D Decoding
    ANSWER B

    The EU unit of 8086 consist of ____________


    A ALU
    B Flag register
    C instruction decoder
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    A register set of 8086 consists of ____________


    A General purpose register
    B Pointer register
    C Index register
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    The flag register of 8086 is _________ bits


    A 8 bits
    B 32 bits
    C 6 bits
    D 24 bits
    ANSWER C

    During physical address calculation the segment register content are shifted by _______________
    A 2-bits left
    B 4-bits left
    C 2-bits right
    D 4-bits right
    ANSWER B

    During instruction fetch __________ and __________ registers are used.


    A IP , DS
    B CS , IP
    C SS , BP
    D SS , IP
    ANSWER B

    What is the size of TR in 80386?


    A 6 bits
    B 32 bits
    C 48 bits
    D 64 bits
    ANSWER A

    ____________ flag of 8086 is used for single stepping mode through a program
    A Zero flag
    B Trap Flag
    C Sign Flag
    D Interrupt Flag
    ANSWER B

    Which of the following 8086 related statement is/are true?


    A segment can overlap
    B segment maximum size is 64 kbytes
    C segments minimum size is 6 bytes
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    _________ allow to use separate memory area for program, data, code and stack
    A Segmentation
    B Pipelining
    C Both a and b
    D None of these
    ANSWER A

    For the stack operation in 8086 __________ register are used?


    A SS
    B SP
    C BP
    D All of these
    ANSWER D

    What is the size of physical address in 8086?


    A 6 bit
    B 20 bit
    C 24 bit
    D 32 bit
    ANSWER B

    The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI = 4000H,
    BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.
    Calculate physical address for MOV AX, [5000H].
    A 5000H
    B 5000H
    C 0500H
    D 000500H
    ANSWER B

    The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI = 4000H,
    BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.
    Calculate physical address for MOV AX, [BP] [SI]
    A 8000H
    B 5000H
    C 2000H

    D 28000H
    ANSWER D

    The contents of different registers are given below. AX = 000H, BX = 2000H, SI = 3000H, DI = 4000H,
    BP = 5000H, SP = 6000H, CS = 0000H, DS = 000H, SS = 2000H, IP = 7000H.
    Calculate physical address for MOV AX, 5000H [BX] [SI]
    A 5000H
    B 0000H
    C 0A000H
    D A000H
    ANSWER D

    What is the output of the following code


    AL=88 BCD, CL=49 BCD
    ADD AL,CL
    DAA
    A D7, CF=
    B 37, CF=
    C 73, CF=
    D 7D, CF=
    ANSWER B

    What is the output of the following code


    AL= 49 BCD, BH= 72 BCD
    SUB AL,BH
    DAS
    A AL=D7, CF=.
    B AL=7D, CF=.
    C AL=77, CF=
    D none of them
    ANSWER C

    What is opcode?
    A The instruction that is to be executed
    B The value in which an operation acts upon
    C A mnemonic that defines a data size
    D The compiled assembly code
    ANSWER A

    What are the names of the 4 segment registers?


    A Data, Index, Code, Stack
    B Stack, Index, Extra, Code
    C Stack, Data, Base, Counter
    D Stack, Extra, Code, Data
    ANSWER D

    The 8086/8088 used two processing units which were known as:
    A Left and Right Units
    B Segment and Offset Units
    C Bus Unit and Execution Interface Unit
    D Bus Interface Unit and Execution Unit
    ANSWER D

    The first processor to include Virtual memory in the Intel microprocessor family was:
    A 4004
    B 80286
    C 80386
    D 80486
    ANSWER B

    The Effective address range in 8086 is _________________.


    A 0000H to FFFFH
    B 00000H to FFFFFH
    C 0000H to 0FFFH
    D None of these
    ANSWER A

    Which segment register is used along with BP register to calculate Physical address?
    A CS
    B SS
    C DS
    D ES
    ANSWER B

    Can ROM be used as stack?


    A Yes
    B No
    C Sometimes yes
    D Sometimes no
    ANSWER B

    The zero flag is reset


    A When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction is zero
    B When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction is not zero
    C When the result of last arithmetic/logical instruction produces carry out of MSB.
    D None of these
    ANSWER B

    What is the size of IP in 8086 is __________________


    A 32
    B 6
    C 48
    D Both a and b
    ANSWER B

    Microprocessor speed depends on ______


    A Clock
    B Data bus wth
    C Address bus wth
    D Size of register
    ANSWER A

    What is the range of Memory locations in 8086?


    A 00000H to FFFFFH
    B 0000H to FFFFH
    C 000000H to FFFFFFH
    D 00000H to FFFFH
    ANSWER A

    In 8086 when Auxiliary Flag is set ____________


    A If there is carry from lower nibble
    B If there is no carry from lower nibble
    C Both a and b
    D None of these
    ANSWER A

    In 8086 when Trap flag is set _______________


    A The processor enter the free run mode
    B The processor enter the single step execution mode
    C Both a and b
    D none of these
    ANSWER B

    8088 differs 8086 in _______________


    A Data wth on the output
    b Supports of Co processor
    C Address capability
    D Supports of max/min mode.
    ANSWER A

    For 8086 _________ bus is birectional and __________ bus is unirectional


    A Address, data
    B Data , address
    C Control, data
    D Address, control
    ANSWER B

    What is the function of segment registers?


    A To store the starting address of corresponding segment
    B To store data required for arithmetic or logical operations
    C To store address within the segment
    D All of above
    ANSWER A

    What is the address range of I/O space in 8086?


    A 0000h – 0FFFh
    B 00000h – FFFFFh
    C 0000h – FFFFh
    D None of these
    ANSWER C

    Which registers are used to generate physical address from logical address?
    A Segment registers
    B Offset register
    C Both (a) and (b)
    D General purpose register
    ANSWER C

    ALE stands for ______


    A Address latch enable
    B Address length enable
    C Address lower enable
    D Address last enable
    ANSWER A

    Which flag is not present in 8086 microprocessor but present in 80386 microprocessor?
    A Zero Flag
    B Sign Flag
    C Trap Flag
    D Nested Task Flag
    ANSWER D

    Which of the following is not possible by a microprocessor?


    A Reading from Memory
    B Writing into Memory
    C Reading from Input port
    D Writing into Input port
    ANSWER D

    A 32-bit processor has


    A 32 register
    B 32 I/O devices
    C 32 Mb of RAM
    D 32bit ALU and 32-bit registers
    ANSWER D

    A machine cycle refers to


    A fetching an instruction
    B clock speed
    C fetching, decoding and executing an instruction
    D executing an instruction
    ANSWER C

    The system bus is made up of ______


    A Data bus
    B Data bus and address bus
    C Data bus and control bus
    D Data bus, control bus and address bus
    ANSWER D

    The minimum number of bits required to store the hexadecimal number FFH is ______
    A 2
    B 4
    C 8
    D 6
    ANSWER C

    A megabyte represents ______


    A million bytes
    B 024 kilobytes
    C 230 bytes
    D 024 bytes
    ANSWER B

    The ASCII code of ‘A’ is ______


    A 66D
    B 4H
    C 000 000
    D 00 00
    ANSWER B

    Why 80386 processor is called as 32 bit processor?


    A Because 80386 processor has 32 bit ALU
    B Because 80386 processor has 32 bit data bus
    C Both(a) and (b)
    D None of these
    ANSWER C

    How many break point addresses we can load in debug registers of 80386 microprocessor?
    A 4
    B 5
    C 7
    D 8
    ANSWER A

    What is the use of base registers and offset registers?


    A To hold 6-bit relative address present within the segment
    B To perform arithmetic and logical operations
    C To hold the data temporary
    D All of above
    ANSWER A

    If direction flag is set then


    A SI is automatically decremented
    B SI is automatically incremented
    C DI is automatically decremented
    D Both (a) and (c)
    ANSWER D

    If PE = , then 80386 DX microprocessor operates in _____


    A Real mode
    B Protected mode
    C Virtual 86 mode
    D Special mode
    ANSWER B

    READY# is ________
    A Address Bus Ready signal
    B Data bus ready signal
    C Control Bus ready signal
    D All of the above
    ANSWER B

    In which microprocessor does the concept of pipeline introduced?


    A 8086
    B 80286
    C 80386
    D 80486
    ANSWER A

    The parity bits are used to check that a _____


    A Two bit error
    B Single bit error
    C Multi bit error
    D None of these
    ANSWER B

    ________ is the most important segment and it contains the actual assembly language instruction to be
    executed by the microprocessor:
    A Data segment
    B Code segment
    C Stack segment
    D Extra segment
    ANSWER B

    A microprocessor contains _______


    A most of RAM
    B most of ROM
    C peripheral drivers
    D most of the control and arithmetic logic functions of computer
    ANSWER D

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