McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Computer Science Engineering (CSE) , Programming Languages .
Chapters
| 1. |
A collection of lines that connects several devices is called ______________ |
| A. | bus |
| B. | peripheral connection wires |
| C. | Both a and b |
| D. | internal wires |
| Answer» A. bus | |
| 2. |
PC Program Counter is also called ____________ |
| A. | instruction pointer |
| B. | memory pointer |
| C. | data counter |
| D. | file pointer |
| Answer» A. instruction pointer | |
| 3. |
Which MIMD systems are best scalable with respect to the number of processors? |
| A. | Distributed memory computers |
| B. | ccNUMA systems |
| C. | nccNUMA systems |
| D. | Symmetric multiprocessors |
| Answer» A. Distributed memory computers | |
| 4. |
Cache coherence: For which shared (virtual) memory systems is the snooping protocol suited? |
| A. | Crossbar connected systems |
| B. | Systems with hypercube network |
| C. | Systems with butterfly network |
| D. | Bus based systems |
| Answer» D. Bus based systems | |
| 5. |
The idea of cache memory is based ______ |
| A. | on the property of locality of reference |
| B. | on the heuristic 90-10 rule |
| C. | on the fact that references generally tend to cluster |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» A. on the property of locality of reference | |
| 6. |
When number of switch ports is equal to or larger than number of devices, this simple network is referred to as ______________ |
| A. | Crossbar |
| B. | Crossbar switch |
| C. | Switching |
| D. | Both a and b |
| Answer» D. Both a and b | |
| 7. |
A remote node is being node which has a copy of a ______________ |
| A. | Home block |
| B. | Guest block |
| C. | Remote block |
| D. | Cache block |
| Answer» D. Cache block | |
| 8. |
A pipeline is like _______________ |
| A. | an automobile assembly line |
| B. | house pipeline |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | a gas line |
| Answer» A. an automobile assembly line | |
| 9. |
Which cache miss does not occur in case of a fully associative cache? |
| A. | Conflict miss |
| B. | Capacity miss |
| C. | Compulsory miss |
| D. | Cold start miss |
| Answer» A. Conflict miss | |
| 10. |
Bus switches are present in ____________ |
| A. | bus window technique |
| B. | crossbar switching |
| C. | linked input/output |
| D. | shared bus |
| Answer» B. crossbar switching | |
| 11. |
Systems that do not have parallel processing capabilities are ______________ |
| A. | SISD |
| B. | MIMD |
| C. | SIMD |
| D. | MISD |
| Answer» A. SISD | |
| 12. |
Parallel programs: Which speedup could be achieved according to Amdahl´s law for infinite number of processors if 5% of a program is sequential and the remaining part is ideally parallel? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 40 |
| Answer» B. 20 | |
| 13. |
SIMD represents an organization that ______________ |
| A. | Includes many processing units under the supervision of a common control unit |
| B. | vector supercomputer and MIMD systems |
| C. | logic behind pipelining an instruction as observe |
| D. | receive an instruction from the controlling unit |
| Answer» A. Includes many processing units under the supervision of a common control unit | |
| 14. |
Cache memory works on the principle of ____________ |
| A. | communication links |
| B. | Locality of reference |
| C. | Bisection bandwidth |
| D. | average access time |
| Answer» B. Locality of reference | |
| 15. |
In shared bus architecture, the required processor(s) to perform a bus cycle, for fetching data or instructions is ________________ |
| A. | One Processor |
| B. | Two Processor |
| C. | Multi-Processor |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. One Processor | |
| 16. |
Alternative way of a snooping-based coherence protocol, is called a ____________ |
| A. | Write invalidate protocol |
| B. | Snooping protocol |
| C. | Directory protocol |
| D. | Write update protocol |
| Answer» C. Directory protocol | |
| 17. |
If no node having a copy of a cache block, this technique is known as ______ |
| A. | Cached |
| B. | Un-cached |
| C. | Shared data |
| D. | Valid data |
| Answer» B. Un-cached | |
| 18. |
Requesting node sending the requested data starting from the memory, and the requestor which has made the only sharing node, known as ________. |
| A. | Read miss |
| B. | Write miss |
| C. | Invalidate |
| D. | Fetch |
| Answer» A. Read miss | |
| 19. |
A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called ______. |
| A. | Direct interconnects |
| B. | Indirect interconnects |
| C. | Pipe-lining |
| D. | Uniform Memory Access |
| Answer» C. Pipe-lining | |
| 20. |
All nodes in each dimension form a linear array, in the __________. |
| A. | Star topology |
| B. | Ring topology |
| C. | Connect topology |
| D. | Mesh topology |
| Answer» D. Mesh topology | |
| 21. |
The concept of pipelining is most effective in improving performance if the tasks being performed in different stages : |
| A. | require different amount of time |
| B. | require about the same amount of time |
| C. | require different amount of time with time difference between any two tasks being same |
| D. | require different amount with time difference between any two tasks being different |
| Answer» B. require about the same amount of time | |
| 22. |
The expression 'delayed load' is used in context of |
| A. | processor-printer communication |
| B. | memory-monitor communication |
| C. | pipelining |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. pipelining | |
| 23. |
During the execution of the instructions, a copy of the instructions is placed in the ______ . |
| A. | Register |
| B. | RAM |
| C. | System heap |
| D. | Cache |
| Answer» D. Cache | |
| 24. |
Producer consumer problem can be solved using _____________ |
| A. | semaphores |
| B. | event counters |
| C. | monitors |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. monitors | |
| 25. |
A situation where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which access takes place is called: |
| A. | data consistency |
| B. | race condition |
| C. | aging |
| D. | starvation |
| Answer» B. race condition | |
| 26. |
The segment of code in which the process may change common variables, update tables, write into files is known as : |
| A. | program |
| B. | critical section |
| C. | non – critical section |
| D. | synchronizing |
| Answer» B. critical section | |
| 27. |
All deadlocks involve conflicting needs for __________ |
| A. | Resources |
| B. | Users |
| C. | Computers |
| D. | Programs |
| Answer» A. Resources | |
| 28. |
___________ are used for signaling among processes and can be readily used to enforce a mutual exclusion discipline. |
| A. | Semaphores |
| B. | Messages |
| C. | Monitors |
| D. | Addressing |
| Answer» A. Semaphores | |
| 29. |
To avoid deadlock ____________ |
| A. | there must be a fixed number of resources to allocate |
| B. | resource allocation must be done only once |
| C. | all deadlocked processes must be aborted |
| D. | inversion technique can be used |
| Answer» A. there must be a fixed number of resources to allocate | |
| 30. |
A minimum of _____ variable(s) is/are required to be shared between processes to solve the critical section problem. |
| A. | one |
| B. | two |
| C. | three |
| D. | four |
| Answer» B. two | |
| 31. |
Spinlocks are intended to provide __________ only. |
| A. | Mutual Exclusion |
| B. | Bounded Waiting |
| C. | Aging |
| D. | Progress |
| Answer» B. Bounded Waiting | |
| 32. |
To ensure difficulties do not arise in the readers – writer’s problem, _______ are given exclusive access to the shared object. |
| A. | readers |
| B. | writers |
| C. | readers and writers |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. writers | |
| 33. |
If a process is executing in its critical section, then no other processes can be executing in their critical section. This condition is called ___________. |
| A. | Out-of-order execution |
| B. | Hardware prefetching |
| C. | Software prefetching |
| D. | mutual exclusion |
| Answer» D. mutual exclusion | |
| 34. |
A semaphore is a shared integer variable ____________. |
| A. | lightweight process |
| B. | that cannot drop below zero |
| C. | program counter |
| D. | stack space |
| Answer» B. that cannot drop below zero | |
| 35. |
A critical section is a program segment ______________. |
| A. | where shared resources are accessed |
| B. | single thread of execution |
| C. | improves concurrency in multi-core system |
| D. | Lower resource consumption |
| Answer» A. where shared resources are accessed | |
| 36. |
A counting semaphore was initialized to 10. Then 6 P (wait) operations and 4V (signal) operations were completed on this semaphore. The resulting value of the semaphore is ___________ |
| A. | 4 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 9 |
| D. | 8 |
| Answer» D. 8 | |
| 37. |
A system has 3 processes sharing 4 resources. If each process needs a maximum of 2 units, then _____________ |
| A. | Better system utilization |
| B. | deadlock can never occur |
| C. | Responsiveness |
| D. | Faster execution |
| Answer» B. deadlock can never occur | |
| 38. |
_____________ refers to the ability of multiple process (or threads) to share code, resources or data in such a way that only one process has access to shared object at a time. |
| A. | Readers_writer locks |
| B. | Barriers |
| C. | Semaphores |
| D. | Mutual Exclusion |
| Answer» D. Mutual Exclusion | |
| 39. |
____________ is the ability of multiple processes to co-ordinate their activities by exchange of information. |
| A. | Deadlock |
| B. | Synchronization |
| C. | Mutual Exclusion |
| D. | Cache |
| Answer» B. Synchronization | |
| 40. |
Paths that have an unbounded number of allowed nonminimal hops from packet sources, this situation is referred to as __________. |
| A. | Livelock |
| B. | Deadlock |
| C. | Synchronization |
| D. | Mutual Exclusion |
| Answer» A. Livelock | |
| 41. |
Let S and Q be two semaphores initialized to 1, where P0 and P1 processes the following statements wait(S);wait(Q); ---; signal(S);signal(Q) and wait(Q); wait(S);---;signal(Q);signal(S); respectively. The above situation depicts a _________. |
| A. | Livelock |
| B. | Critical Section |
| C. | Deadlock |
| D. | Mutual Exclusion |
| Answer» C. Deadlock | |
| 42. |
Which of the following conditions must be satisfied to solve the critical section problem? |
| A. | Mutual Exclusion |
| B. | Progress |
| C. | Bounded Waiting |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. All of the mentioned | |
| 43. |
Mutual exclusion implies that ____________. |
| A. | if a process is executing in its critical section, then no other process must be executing in their critical sections |
| B. | if a process is executing in its critical section, then other processes must be executing in their critical sections |
| C. | if a process is executing in its critical section, then all the resources of the system must be blocked until it finishes execution |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. if a process is executing in its critical section, then no other process must be executing in their critical sections | |
| 44. |
Bounded waiting implies that there exists a bound on the number of times a process is allowed to enter its critical section ____________. |
| A. | after a process has made a request to enter its critical section and before the request is granted |
| B. | when another process is in its critical section |
| C. | before a process has made a request to enter its critical section |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. after a process has made a request to enter its critical section and before the request is granted | |
| 45. |
What are the two atomic operations permissible on semaphores? |
| A. | Wait |
| B. | Stop |
| C. | Hold |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. Wait | |
| 46. |
What are Spinlocks? |
| A. | CPU cycles wasting locks over critical sections of programs |
| B. | Locks that avoid time wastage in context switches |
| C. | Locks that work better on multiprocessor systems |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. All of the mentioned | |
| 47. |
What is the main disadvantage of spinlocks? |
| A. | they are not sufficient for many process |
| B. | they require busy waiting |
| C. | they are unreliable sometimes |
| D. | they are too complex for programmers |
| Answer» B. they require busy waiting | |
| 48. |
The signal operation of the semaphore basically works on the basic _______ system call. |
| A. | continue() |
| B. | wakeup() |
| C. | getup() |
| D. | start() |
| Answer» B. wakeup() | |
| 49. |
If the semaphore value is negative ____________. |
| A. | its magnitude is the number of processes waiting on that semaphore |
| B. | it is invalid |
| C. | no operation can be further performed on it until the signal operation is performed on it |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» A. its magnitude is the number of processes waiting on that semaphore | |
| 50. |
Which directive must precede the directive: #pragma omp sections (not necessarily immediately)? |
| A. | #pragma omp section |
| B. | #pragma omp parallel |
| C. | None |
| D. | #pragma omp master |
| Answer» A. #pragma omp section | |
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