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2 MARKS PART 1

11th Standard

Computer Science
286 x 2 = 572

1) What is a computer?

2) Distinguish between data and information?

3) What are the components of a CPU?

4) What is the function of an ALU?

5) Write the functions of control unit.

6) What is the function of memory?

7) Differentiate Input and output unit.

8) Distinguish Primary and Secondary memory.

9) Name the First generation computers.

10) Name the Second generation computers.

11) Name the Third generation computers.

12) Expand VLSI.

13) Name the softwares introduced in fifth generation computers.

14) Name the types of computer introduced in Fourth generation computers.

15) Write the developments of Sixth generation computers.

16) What is NLP?

17) What is CPU?

18) What is use of scanner?

19) What is the use of Microphone?

20) Write a note on Digital Camera.

21) Name the types of Monitors.

22) What is use of VGA?

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23) Write the two main categories of Printer.

24) What is impact printers?

25) What is Non-Impact printers?

26) What is Bio engineering?

27) What is booting a computer?

28) Differentiate keyer and keyboard.

29) Write few fields in which computer is used.

30) What makes Charles Babbage the father of computing?

31) How the generation of computer development characterized?

32) What is the goal of neural network approach?

33) Write the tools in which nanotechnology was born.

34) Define IPO Cycle.

35) How the functional components of a computer works.

36) Name the different keys available in the keyboard.

37) Write any two pointing device.

38) Write a note on a device which in used to draw lines on VDU.

39) Define Pixels.

40) Name the types of Monitors available.

41) How the date travel through control bus?

42) Name the type of registers are essential for instruction execution.

43) Expand
(a) MAR
(b) MBR

44) How BIOS works in a computer system?

45) Why POST is essential?

46) What does reboot mean?

47) Write the limitations of impact printer.

48) Give two examples for Graphical input devices.

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49) Give four examples for secondary storage devices.

50) Write the main advantages of using LED & LCD Screen.

51) Expand BIOS.

52) Expand POST.

53) Expand ANN, OCR.

54) Expand ULSI.

55) Who invented Mouse?

56) What is Warm Booting?

57) Mention the uses of Neural Networks?

58) What is Mechatronics?

59) What is Robotics?

60) What is Mouse?

61) What are the different types of Bus?

62) What are Registers?

63) What is Program counter?

64) What is IR?

65) Name some impact Printers.

66) Name the different types of mouse available.

67) What are the advantages and disadvantages of light pen?

68) What is CCD?

69) Name some mouse actions.

70) Name the different types of keys available in tbe keyboard.

71) What are the developments and technologies available in 6th generation computer?

72) How do mouse are used?

73) How do printers are classified?

74) What are the advantages of Laser printers?

75) How do Inkjet printers work?

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76) Define Bootstrap Loader.

77) What technology is used in Inkjet printers?

78) What is data?

79) Write the 1's complement procedure.

80) Convert (46)10 into Binary number

81) We cannot find 1's complement for (28)10. State reason.

82) List the encoding systems that represents characters in memory

83) What Is Boolean Algebra?

84) Write a short note on NAND Gate

85) Draw the truth table for XOR gate

86) Write the associative laws?

87) What are derived gates?

88) List the types of information stored in a computer

89) Name the Number system is used in general

90) Name the four types of Number system.

91) Write the radix of Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal Number systems.

92) How the given messages are represented in computers?

93) What is information?

94) What is knowledge? Give example.

95) How the data classified based on their size?

96) What is bit?

97) What is byte?

98) What is Nibble?

99) What is word length?

100) What is a number system?

101) Why do we need Radix or Base for the number system?

102) Which parameters are used to determine the magnitude of a number or the value of each digit
in a number?
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103) Convert (128) 8 → (?)10

104) Which method is used to convert the decimal number to Octal number system?

105) Which number system is called positional value system?

106) How the sequence of Octal numbers looks like?

107) Name the frequently used number system

108) How many procedures for converting from decimal binary to what are they?

109) What is double dabble method?

110) Convert 1011012 to its decimal equivalents using double dabble method

111) How the binary number represented by signed and an unsigned bit?

112) What does the complement of a number refer?

113) Write the one's complement of 10102 and 1001012?

114) What is a use of coding scheme?

115) Expand EBCDIC and BCD.

116) Expand ASC11 and ISCII.

117) What is BCD?

118) What is Standard BCD?

119) If a user types 256 (in Decimal) using BCD coding. What is the number stored in the memory
of the computer?

120) What is EBCDIC?

121) What is ASCII?

122) Name the characters which are encoded by ASCII code?

123) Name the programming language use the ASCII code.

124) Name any four languages which support ISCII.

125) What is TSCII?

126) What appears if user types 'C' and 'CC' using TSCII?

127) What is sign bit?

128) What is Tamil glyphs?

129) Convert 1010100.0112 to a decimal number

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130) Convert 22.2510 to binary

131) Convert 110111101011102 to hexa decimal

132) Convert 4A8C16 to binary

133) Convert EB4A16 to decimal

134) Convert 729510 to hexadecimal

135) What is radix?

136) Convert the following Hexadecimal numbers to Binary numbers A6.

137) Write the 1's complement number and 2's complement number for the following decimal
number: 22

138) Perform the following binary computations 1010 + 1510

139) Convert the following Hexadecimal numbers to Binary numbers : BE

140) Convert the following Hexadecimal numbers to Binary numbers: 9BC8

141) Convert the following Hexadecimal numbers to Binary numbers BC9.

142) Write the 1's complement number and 2's complement number for the following decimal
number: 13

143) Write the 1's complement number and 2's complement number for the following decimal
number: 65

144) Write the 1's complement number and 2's complement number for the following decimal
number: 46

145) Perform the following binary computations -1210+510

146) Perform the following binary computations 1410-1210

147) Perform the following binary computations (-210) - (-610)

148) Expand ASCII.

149) What is MSB and LSB?

150) Expand: BCD, EBCDIC, ASCII

151) Define word length?

152) What are the methods of converting a number from decimal to binary.

153) How will you convert a number from octal to Binary.

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154) What are the various ways for Binary representation of signed numbers?

155) Write a short note on BCD.

156) Define Nibble.

157) What are data values for Nibble, Bit and Byte?

158) What do you understand by the term base or radix?

159) (29)10 = (?)8.

160) Convert (59)10 into Hexadecimal number

161) (1100101)2 convert into Hexadecimal number system.

162) Convert (137)8 = (?)10.

163) (1101)2 = (?)16.

164) (331)10 = (?)16.

165) Convert (101101001 . 1011)2 into Octal.

166) The binary sequence (1101)2 has the decimal equivalent:

167) The Octal sequence (547)8 has the decimal equivalent:

168) Decimal Number System (123)10

169) The hexadecimal sequence (25)16 has the decimal equivalent:

170) Convert (65)10 into its equivalent binary number

171) The conversion steps can be given as follows:

172) Convert (65)10 into its equivalent Octal number

173) Convert (31)10 into its equivalent hexadecimal number.

174) Convert (111011)2 into its equivalent decimal number.

175) Convert (11010110)2 into octal equivalent number

176) Convert (1111010110)2 into Hexadecimal number

177) Convert the given Binary number (11.011)2 into its decimal equivalent Integer part (11)2 = 3
(Refer table 2.2)

178) Convert (1265)8 to equivalent Decimal number

179) Convert (6213)8 to equivalent Binary number

180) Convert (25F)16 into its equivalent Decimal number.

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181) Convert (8BC)16 into equivalent Binary number

182) +43 or 43 is a positive number

–43 is a negative number
In signed binary representation, the left most bit is considered as sign bit. If this bit is 0, it is a
positive number and if it 1, it is a negative number. Therefore a signed binary number has 8 bits,
only 7 bits used for storing values (magnitude) and the 1 bit is used for sign.

183) Find 1’s complement for (–24)10

184) 2’s Complement represent of (-24)10

185) Add: 10112 + 10012

186) Convert (29)10 into Octal number system.

187) Convert (137)8 into Decimal number system

188) Convert (1101)2 into Hexadecimal number system.

189) convert (331)10 into Hexadecimal number system.

190) What are the parameters which influence the characteristics of a microprocessor?

191) What is an instruction?

192) What is a program counter?

193) What is HDMI?

194) Which source is used to erase the content of a EPROM?

195) Name the communication channels between the microprocessor and other devices in the
computer.

196) What are the collections of System Bus?

197) Draw the block diagram of a microprocessor based system.

198) Name the measurement of clock speed of the computer.

199) What is instruction set?

200) What is word size?

201) Name the different types of CPU Register.

202) What is Bus?

203) What is the use of MDR?

204) Define Decoder.

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205) What is the use of address bus?

206) What is the use of data bus?

207) Write the direction in which data transfer through data bus and address bus?

208) Name the two types of basic storage units which stores data and instruction.

209) What is MDR?

210) What is memory access time?

211) What does the storage unit of a computer system depend on?

212) What does R/W

¯
denotes when CPU and memory connected by bus?

213) How the microprocessors are classified?

214) How the microprocessors classified based on Instruction set?

215) Expand RISC and CISC

216) Write any four RISC processors.

217) Write any four CISC processors

218) What is computer memory?

219) Expand RAM and ROM.

220) Arrange the following memories according to slower access time.

a. Hard disk
b. cache
c. main memory
d. Blu ray

221) Name the two basic types of RAM.

222) Differentiate SRAM and DRAM.

223) Differentiate ROM and PROM.

224) How the contents of EPROM erased?

225) How the contents of EEPROM erased?

226) What is use of Cache memory?

227) Define 'Pits' and 'lands' in CD?

228) Expand CD, DVD, CD-ROM.

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229) What is Flash Memory?

230) Name any four applications of Flash memory.

231) What is use of Blu-Ray disc?

232) Differentiate Blu-Ray and DVD.

233) Name the types of flash memory.

234) What is the use of ports?

235) What is USB 3.0?

236) How the memory devices are arranged?

237) Which component of Microprocessor is used to transfer data?

238) Write the three basic characteristic used to differentiate microprocessors.

239) Which Microprocessor supports the minimal instruction set?

240) What data travels in the address bus?

241) Why a 32-bit microprocessor called so?

242) What basis microprocessors divided in 16-bit, 32- bit, 64-bit?

243) What is the role of clock speed in microprocessor?

244) What is memory access time?

245) What is meant by data transfer?

246) Define Silicon Chip.

247) Differentiate Arithmetic and logical operations.

248) Define System Bus

249) Define Hertz.

250) What is use of Hertz.

251) Write a note on first commercial microprocessor.

252) Differentiate RAM and ROM.

253) Expand PROM, EPROM and EEPROM.

254) How the conents of EPROM is erased?

255) What is the function of memory? What are its measuring units?
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256) Why a data bus bi-directional?

257) What is the function of accumulator?

258) What do you understand by an instruction cycle?

259) What is the difference between a 32 bit bus and 64 bit bus?

260) How many address lines are needed (for the address bus) to address a memory with 64 Giga
bytes? show you calculation.

261) What is a clock frequency (Hz)?

262) What is the use of program counter?

263) Which is the first commercial microprocessor?

264) What are the components of CPU?

265) What is meant by Hard Disk?

266) What Blu-Ray Disc?

267) Why the Blu-Ray disc is called so?

268) What is Cache Memory?

269) Expand HDMI

270) Write notes on BIu-Ray Disc.

271) What is meant by word size?

272) Name the types of operations performed by the Instruction Set.

273) Mention the criteria on which microprocessors are classified.

274) What is RISC?

275) What is CISC?

276) Write note on secondary storage devices.

277) How is microprocessor made up of?

278) What is Registers?

279) What is the use of Hertz?

280) What is the use of the word size?

281) What is address bus?

282) How microprocessor are classified?

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283) What is ROM?

284) What is EEPROM?

285) What is PROM Burning?

286) Explain port and Interfaces.

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