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M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
First Year
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Computer Organisation
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
SECTION A × 15 45)
Answer any THREE questions
Q1) Explain about Structure of the IAS Computer.
Q2) Explain about the peripheral component interconnect (PCI).
Q3) Explain about the Disk Performance Parameters.
Q4) Explain about the Hardware Implementation of Unsigned Binary Multiplication.
Q5) With suitable example explain about Microprocessor Register Organizations.
SECTION B × 4 20)
Answer any five questions
Q6) Explain about the Top Level Structure of Computer.
Q7) Explain about the Amdahl's Law.
Q8) What is the benefit of using a multiple bus architecture compared to a single bus
architecture?
Q9) Explain about various Classes of interrupts.
Q10) How is redundancy achieved in a RAID system?
Q11) Explain about Magnetic Tape.
Q12) List four alternative methods of rounding the result of a floating point operation.
Q13) Explain about pipeline Hazards.
SECTION C × 1
Answer all questions
Q14) What is a stored program computer?
Q15) Define the terms seek time, rotational delay, access time and transfer time.
Q16) How is redundancy achieved in a RAID system?
Q17) What is the function of condition codes?
Q18) Explain about instruction prefetch.