MCA DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2017
First Year
Computer Organization
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Section A
Answer any three questions × 15 45]
Q1) Explain about the organization of an Embedded System.
Q2) Explain about PCI Physical and Logical Architecture.
Q3) Explain about RAID.
Q4) Explain about Floating-Point Multiplication.
Q5) Explain about Internal Structure of the CPU.
Section B
Answer any five questions × 4 20]
Q6) Explain about the Top-level structure of a computer.
Q7) Explain about the instruction execution rate.
Q8) List and explain the QPI protocol layers.
Q9) Explain about CD Operation.
Q10) Briefly explain the following representations: sign magnitude, twos complement and
biased.
Q11) What are the basic elements of floating-point addition and subtraction?
Q12) Explain instruction pipeline operation with timing diagram.
Q13) How are history bits used for branch prediction?
Section C
Answer all questions × 1
Q14) What is the key distinguishing feature of a microprocessor?
Q15) What is the benefit of using a multiple-bus architecture compared to a single-bus
architecture?
Q16) What is the typical disk sector size?
Q17) What are the four essential elements of a number in floating-point notation?
Q18) What are the general roles performed by processor registers?