Computer Organization Practice Set

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Machine Instruction
☞ Addressing Mode
☞ Memory hierarchy
☞ Cache memory
☞ Input Output Interface
☞ 8085 Microprocessor
Q1➡ |
A magnetic disk has 100 cylinders, each with 10 tracks of 10 sectors. If each sector contains 128 bytes, what is the maximum capacity of the disk in kilobytes?
i ➥ 1280
ii ➥ 128,000
iii ➥ 1250
iv ➥ 1,280,000
Answer – III
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Q2➡ |
Which of the following is not a sequential storage device?
i ➥ Magnetic tape
ii ➥ Magnetic disk
iii ➥ Paper tape
iv ➥ All of these
Answer – II
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Q3➡ |
Consider the disk which has average seek time of 32 ns and rotational rate of 360 rpm(round per minute), Each track of the disk has 512 sectors, each of size 512 bytes.
What is the data transfer rate?
i ➥ 1536 KBps
ii ➥ 936 KBps
iii ➥ 1636 KBps
iv ➥ 1736 KBps
Answer – I
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Q4➡ |
A hard disk system has the following parameters
Number of track = 500
Number of sectors/track = 100
Number of bytes/sector = 500
Time taken by the head to move from one track to adjacent track = 1 ms
Rotation speed = 600 rpm
What is the average time taken for transferring 250 bytes from the disk?
i ➥ 255 ms
ii ➥ 300.5 ms
iii ➥ 300 ms
iv ➥ 255.5 ms
Answer – III
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Q5➡ |
________ refers to the amount of time required to position the read – white head of a hard disk on appropriate sector.
i ➥ Access time
ii ➥ Seek time
iii ➥ Load time
iv ➥ Rotational latency
Answer – II
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Q6➡ |
A hard disk is divided into tracks which are further subdivided into
i ➥ heads
ii ➥ sectors
iii ➥ vectors
iv ➥ clusters
Answer – II
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Q7➡ |
Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders (0-16383) and each cylinder contains 64 sectors (0-63). Data storage capacity in each sector is 512 bytes. Data are organized cylinder-wise and the addressing format is . A file of size 42797 KB is stored in the disk and the starting disk location of the file is <1200, 9, 40>. What is the cylinder number of the last sector of the file, if it is stored in a contiguous manner?
i ➥ 1282
ii ➥ 1283
iii ➥ 1284
iv ➥ 1281
Answer – III
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Q8➡ |
Consider a typical disk that rotates at 15000 rotations per minute (RPM) and has a transfer rate of 50×106 bytes/sec. If the average seek time of the disk is twice the average rotational delay and the controller’s transfer time is 10 times the disk transfer time, the average time (in milliseconds) to read or write a 512-byte sector of the disk is ________.

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