F-2,Block, Amity CampusSec-125, Nodia (UP)

India 201303ASSIGNMENTS

PROGRAM:SEMESTER-ISubject Name :Study COUNTRY :Permanent Enrollment Number (PEN) :Roll Number :Student Name :

INSTRUCTIONSa) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets.

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS MARKSAssignment A Five Subjective Questions 10Assignment B Three Subjective Questions + Case Study 10Assignment C 45 Objective Questions 10

b) Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marksc) All assignments are to be completed as typed in word/pdf.d) All questions are required to be attempted.e) All the three assignments are to be completed by due dates (specified

from time to time) and need to be submitted for evaluation by Amity University.

f) The evaluated assignment marks will be made available within six weeks. Thereafter, these will be destroyed at the end of each semester.

g) The students have to attached a scan signature in the form.

Signature : _________________________________Date : _________________________________( √ ) Tick mark in front of the assignments submitted

Assignment ‘A’ Assignment ‘B’ Assignment ‘C’

Introduction to IT and CS

Assignment A

Q1. Explain register transfer language..Q2. What are peripheral devices list them.Q3. Describe the circuit implementation of function xy’+yz.Q4.What is the difference between assembler , compiler and interpreter?Q5.What are the different level of programming languages?

Assignment B

1. Explain memory hierarchy in brief.2. What do you understand by parallel processing?3. What is array processor and what is the role of attached array

processor?

There is no case study

Assignment –C(Multiple Choice Question)

Q1. The world’s fastest and most advanced computer.a) Main frames Computersb) Super Computersc) Personal Computersd) Mini Computers

Q2. Who is the father of computers.a) Blaise Pascalb) Charles Babbagec) Konrad Zused) John Atanasoff

Q3. Who invented Pascalin.a) Blaise Pascalb) Charles Babbagec) Konrad Zused) John Atanasoff

Q4. Who invented ABC .a) Blaise Pascalb) Charles Babbagec) Konrad Zused) John Atanasoff

Q5. ___________earned the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern computer"

a) Blaise Pascalb) Charles Babbagec) Konrad Zused) John Atanasoff

Q6. MARK series of computers was designed by a) Konrad Zuseb) John Atanasoffc) Howard Aikend) Blaise Pascal

Q7. The computers of ________generation replaced vacuum tubes with

transistors.

a) 1st

b) 2nd

c) 3rd

d) 4th

Q8. EDVAC stand for

a) Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. b) Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator. c) Electric Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. d) Electric Dependent Variable Automatic Calculator.

Q9. _____________type of computers recognizes data by counting discrete signal of (0 0r 1), they are high speed programmable; they compute values and stores results.

a) Digital computer

b) Analog Computer

c) Hybrid Computer

d) Super Computer

Q10. In the decimal number system, there are ________ possible values.

a) 2b) 10c) 8d) 16

Q11. In a positional notation system, the number base is called the __________.

a) radixb) radiusc) remixd) base value

Q12. The decimal number 163 would be represented in BCD as follows.a) 0001 0110 0011b) 0001 0011 0110c) 0001 0011 0001d) 0001 0001 0110

Q13. When a fixed precision binary number is used to hold only positive values, it is said to be a) unsignedb) Signedc) Positived) Negitave

Q14. The binary number system is ________ numbering system.a) positional notationb) non-positional notationc) signedd) unsigned

Q15. Convert 3710 to binarya) 100100b) 100101c) 101101d) 100110

Q16. Convert the binary number 01011011 to a hexadecimal number.a) B5b) 5Bc) 4Bd) B6

Q17. Sometimes called __________, memory consists of one or more chips on the motherboard or some other circuit board in the computer.

a) primary storage b) auxiliary storage c) secondary storage d) permanent storage

Q18. Examples of storage media are all of the following except __________.a) floppy disks b) expansion cards c) compact disks d) tape

Q19. A __________, is a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of a disk.A) track B) cluster C) shutter D) sector

Q20. A disk’s storage locations consist of pie-shaped sections, which break the tracks into small arcs called __________.

A) backups B) clusters C) shutters D) sectors

Q21. Hard disks provide for __________ access times than floppy disks.A) lesser storage capacities and much slower B) greater storage capacities but much slower C) lesser storage capacities but much faster D) greater storage capacities and much faster

Q22. Below are the major structural components of CPU except :

a) Control Unit

b) ALU

c) Registers

d) RAM

Q23. “A hypothesis that states transistor densities in a single chip will

double every 18 months”

a) More’s Law

b) CPU’s Law

c) Moore’s Law

d) Transistor’s Law

Q24. RISC stands for

a) Reduced Instruction Set Computer

b) Redundant Instruction Set Computer

c) Reduced Information Set Computer

d) Reduced Instruction Set Chip

Q25. _______ is not an auxiliary memory.

a) RAM

b) Hard Disk

c) Tapes

d) DVD

Q26. _____________ is most commonly used to store system-level

programs that we want to have available to the computer at all times.

a) ROM

b) RAM

c) Hard Disk

d) CD

Q27. The purpose of ___________is to act as a buffer between the very

limited, very high-speed CPU registers and the relatively slower and much

larger main system memory.

a) cache memoryb) RAMc) Virtual memoryd) ROM

Q28. When data are found in the cache, it is called a a) Cache missb) Cache foundc) Cache hitd) Cache data

Q29. By placing some parts that should be in memory inside your hard-disk one can extend the memory capacity of a computer way beyond what is installed; this is called ___________.

a) virtual memoryb) cache memoryc) primary memoryd) secondary memory

Q30 __________ is not an input device.a) MICRb) OMRc) Touch Screend) Plotter

Q31 ____________ is not an output device.a) Projectorb) Printerc) Plotterd) Scanner

Q32. All are Variants of the Mouse except.a) Track ballb) Track padc) integrated pointing deviced) Game pad

Q33 ____________ is a device that can read text or illustrations and translate the information into a form the computer can use.

a) Printerb) Plotterc) Scannerd) Reader

Q34. MICR stands for ________________.a) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

b) Magnetic Ink Character Reader

c) Mechanical Ink Character Recognition

d) Mechanical Ink Character Reader

Q35. ___________ is not an operating system.

a) Unix

b) Linux

c) DOS

d) Internet Explorer

Q36. COBOL is ___________ language.

a) 1st

b) 2nd

c) 3rd

d) 4th

Q37. ____________converts source code into object code.

a) Compiler

b) Interpreter

c) Translator

d) Converter

Q38. ________________ is a software program that enables the computer

hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software.

a) Application Software

b) Translators

c) Languages

d) Operating System

Q39. An Operating systems that is capable of allowing multiple software

processes to be run at the same time is.

a) Multiuser OS

b) Multiprocessing

c) Multitasking

d) Multithreading

Q40. A____________ is a language that provides little or no abstraction

from a computer's instruction set architecture.

a) low-level programming language

b) High- level programming language

c) Assembly level programming language

d) Real fprogramming language