Q. The size of the physical address space of a processor is 2𝑃 bytes. The word length is 2𝑊 bytes. The capacity of cache memory is 2𝑁 bytes. The size of each cache block is 2𝑀 words. For a 𝐾-way set-associative cache memory, the length (in number of bits) of the tag field is (A) 𝑃 − 𝑁 − log2 ...

Q. Consider the unsigned 8-bit fixed point binary number representation below, b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 .  b2 b1 b0 Where the position of the binary point is between b3 and b2. Assume b7 is the most significant bit. Some of the decimal numbers listed below cannot be represented exactly in the above ...

Q. Consider the following C code. Assume that unsigned long int type length is 64 bits. The value returned when we call fun with the input 240 is (A) 4                           (B) 5                           (C) 6                           (D) 40 Ans: 5 Sol: // n takes ...

Q. Let G be a simple undirected graph. Let TD be a depth first search tree of G. Let TB be a breadth first search tree of G.  Consider the following statements. I . No edge of G is a cross edge with respect to TD. (A cross edge in G is between two nodes neither of which is an ancestor of the ...

Q. Let N be the set of natural numbers. Consider the following sets. P: Set of Rational numbers (positive and negative) Q: Set of functions from {0, 1} to N R: Set of functions from N to {0, 1} S: Set of finite subsets of N. Which of the sets above are countable? (A) Q and S ...

Q. Consider a long-lived TCP session with an end-to-end bandwidth of 1 Gbps (= 109 bits-per- second). The session starts with a sequence number of 1234. The minimum time (in seconds, rounded to the closest integer) before this sequence number can be used again is     Ans: 34 Sol: As ...

Q. Consider a system with 3 processes that share 4 instances of the same resource type. Each process can request a maximum of 𝐾 instances. Resource instances can be requested and released only one at a time. The largest value of 𝐾 that will always avoid deadlock is . Ans: 2 Sol: ...

Q. A 32-bit wide main memory unit with a capacity of 1 GB is built using 256M × 4-bit DRAM chips. The number of rows of memory cells in the DRAM chip is 214. The time taken to perform one refresh operation is 50 nanoseconds. The refresh period is 2 milliseconds. The percentage (rounded to the ...

Q. Consider the sequential circuit shown in the figure, where both flip-flops used are positive edge-triggered D flip-flops. The number of states in the state transition diagram of this circuit that have a transition back to the same state on some value of “in” is                . Ans: 2

Q. The postorder traversal of a binary tree is 8,9,6,7,4,5,2,3,1. The inorder traversal of the same tree is 8,6,9,4,7,2,5,1,3. The height of a tree is the length of the longest path from the root to any leaf. The height of the binary tree above is                                   . Ans: 4 ...