Here I am giving you question paper for Tamil Nadu common entrance test Computer Science engineering examination in PDF file attached with it so you can get it easily.

Pick out the odd one
1. 8087
2. 80287
3. 80387
4. 8257

The Intel family of microprocessors supports
number of privilege levels
1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4.

The ASSUME assembler directive is used to
1. load the segment registers with their
appropriate values
2. indicate which logical segment is to be
associated with the physical

. A delayed branch
1. is a branch that is executed after a
certain delay
2. is the penalty paid for speculating a
branch
3. refers to placing useful instructions
after the branch instructions
4. none of the above

A superscalar processor is
1. a vector processor
2. a processor which issues more than one
instruction per cycle
3. a number of scalar processors
together
4. all of the above

Segmentation results in
1. internal fragmentation
2. external fragmentation
3. make the assembler assume certain 3. both external and internal
default settings
tell the assembler to ignore certain
default settings

The value represented by the hex number
representing a floating point
number, with 1 is
1. 4.5
2. 45000000
3. 2.5
4. 0.22

A microprogramme control unit is better than
a hardwired control unit, because it is
1. flexible
fragmentation
4. neither external nor internal
fragmentation

A computer with a 32-bit address uses a two
level page table. Virtual addresses are split
into a 9-bit top level page table field, a
second level page table field and an
offset. How large are pages?
1. 9 K
97. Consider a swapping system in which
memory consists of the following hole sizes in
2. faster
3. easier to design manually
4. cheaper
K , 4 K, 20 K, K, 7 K,
K
K a n d
92. Which of the following is not part of a
microprogrammed control unit?
1. Micro PC
2. Control store
3. Clock
4. Control step counter