Assignment

1. Cloud Applications are run on some web application server in the internet.

2. Multithreading computer Architectures implement the CPU in such a way that more than one instruction can be performed (completed) at a time

3. In a symmetric multiprocessing system there are multiple processors that share other all other system resources (memory, disk, etc).

4. What is the value of the following signed integer 1011 1001 = -27 or -57

5. Direct Memory Access is the most common method of transferring data directly between a peripheral and system RAM.

6. An instruction that only the operating system can execute is called a machine instruction.

7. What is the value of the following 2's complement number?

1111 1111 1111 1011 = -5 or -10

8. What technique is being utilized when high performance is obtained by subdividing the clock cycle into a number of sub-intervals Pipelining technique.

9. When a computer starts up, it begins to load information from the hard disk into its read only memory?

10. Who was the scientist who conceived the concept of a stored programmed control computer? John von Neumann who introduced the von Neumann architecture

11. Express the base 10 number < 2010 > as a base 3 number = 202.

12. Only seven bits are needed to encode the complete ASCII character set. What is the 8th bit used for when encoding the ASCII symbol < @ > into an 8 bit word? =2^8

13. In a monochrome bitmap how many bits are needed to stored the color of a pixel. One bit (black and white)

14. What type of compression algorithm is used when creating a JPEG image? Lossless compression algorithm or lossy

15. What is value of the 1's complement integer 1001 1001? = 0110 0110

16. There are usually four stages in an instruction cycle. Name the first stage. Fetch the instruction stage.

17. File descriptors are an index into a file-descriptor table stored by the Kernel.

18. In lossless data compression, the original amount of data is preserved

19. The elementary component of a Quantum computer is a computer memory

20. What type of data formatting is used in the image below?

Vector image formatting

21. If you have a true color display using 8 bits for the intensity of each primary color. How many colors can you create for the display? 256 colors.

22. Encode -3 ¾ as a 32 bit IEEE binary number?

1 10000000 11100000000000000000000

23. Encode the symbol for < 5 > in binary so it can be printed on the console screen? = 101

24. Convert the Octal number 238 to a HEX number (D 16)

25. The Inter process communication is an in-memory buffer that connects two processes together.