basic electronics multiple choice questions Basic Questions on Digital Electronics Flip Flops Number System Logic gates

Logic Families Microproseeors 1. The voltage levels for a negative logic system (a) must necessarily be negative (b) could be negative or positive (c) must necessarily be positive (d) must necessarily be either zero or 5 V

2. The output Qn of a J-K flip-flop is zero. It changes to 1 when a clock pulse is applied. The inputs Jn and Kn are respectively (a) 1 and X (b) 0 and X (c) X and 0 (d) X and 1 3. The larger the RAM of a computer, the faster is its speed, since it eliminate s (a) need for ROM (b) need for external memory (c) frequency disk I/O s (d) need for a data-wide path 4. DB, DW and DD directives are used to place data in particular location or to simply allocate space without preassigning anything to space. The DW and DD dire ctories are used to generate (a) offsets (b) full address of variables (c) full address of labels (d)offsets of full address of labels and variables 5. The number of bits needed to address 4K memory is

(a)6 (b) 8 (c)12 (d) 16 6. The ESC instruction of 8086 may have two formats. In one of the formats, no m emory operand is used. Under this format, the number of external op-codes (for t he co-processor) which can be specified is? (a) 64 (b) 128 (c) 256 (d) 512 7. The TRAP is one of the interrupts available its INTEL 8085. Which one of the following statements is true of TRAP? (a) It is level triggered (b) It is negative edge triggered (c) It is positive edge triggered (d) It is both positive edge triggered and level triggered 8. In a 16-bit microprocessor, words are stored in two consecutive memory locati ons. The entire word can be read in one operation provided the first (a) word is even (b) word is odd (c) memory location is odd (d) memory address is even 9. A 3 x 8 decoder with two enable inputs is to be used to address 8 blocks of m emory. What will be the size of each memory block when addressed from a sixteen bit bus with two MSBs used to enable the decoder (a) 2K (b) 4K (c)16K (d) 64K The following . items consist of two statements, one labeled as Assertion A and t he other labeled the Reason R . You are to examine these two statements carefully a nd decide if the Assertion A and the Reason R are individually true and if so, w hether the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion. Select your answers to these items using the codes given below and mark your answer sheet according

ly: Codes: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. (b)Both A and Rare true but R is NOT a correct explanation of A. (c) A is true but R is false (d)A is false but R is true 10. Assertion (A): TTL and CMOS cannot be normally used together. Reason (R) : .TTL operates on a (5 0.25) V regulated supply voltage and some mA, while the CMOS operates on unregulated supply voltage of +3 to +15 and some micr oA. 11. Assertion (A): Machine language program is written in hexadecimal. Reason (R) : Microprocessor can understand hexadecimal number system. 12.A JK flip-flop has its J input connected to logic level 1 and its K input to the Q output. A clock pulse is fed to its clock input. The flip-flop will now (a) change its state at each clock pulse (b) go to state 1 and stay there (c) go to state 0 and stay there (d) retain its previous state 13.A decade counter requires (a) 10 flip-flops (b) 4 flip-flops (c) 3 flip-flops (d) 2 flip-flops. 14 The decimal value for the BCD coded number 00010010 is (a) 6 (b) 10 (c)12 (d)18. 15. The Boolean expression (A+CD) (B+D+C) may be simplified as (a) AB + CB

(b)AB+C+D (c) A+BC+D (d) A+B+CD. 16. An adder takes (a) one, two (b) two, two (c) three, two (d) two, three. 17.1 Increasing the precision of the REAL data type requires using at least one additional bit in (a) the mantissa (b) the exponent (c) both the mantissa and the exponent (d) none of the above. 18. Let * be the binary operation on rational numbers given a*b=a+b+2ab. Which of following are true? I. * is commutative II. There is a rational number that is a*identity III. Every rational number. has as a* inverse. (a) I only (b) II only (c) I and II (d) I,II and III 19..How many 1 are present in the binary representation of 15 x 256 + 5 x 16 + 3? (a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d)11 20. Which of the following combinations of gates does not allow the implementati on . Input/s and produces . Output/s

of an arbitrary Boolean function? (a) OR gates and inverters only (b) NAND gates only (c) OR gates and exclusive (d) OR gates and NAND gates. 21.Which logic circuit is the fastest? (a) TTL (b) DTL (c) RTL (d) All have same speed. 22.A half adder has (a) 2 inputs and 2 outputs (b) 2 inputs and 3 outputs (c) 3 inputs and 3 outputs (d) None of the above. 23. The main advantage of flip-flops over transistor circuit is (a) immunity from noise (b) low heating (c) low propagation delay time (d) high propagation. 24. The Integrated injection Logic has higher density of integration than TT L bec ause it (a) does not require transistors with high current gain and hence they have smal ler geometry (b) uses bipolar transistor (c) does not require isolation diffusion (d) uses dynamic logic instead of static logic. 25.In a positive edge triggered JK flip-flop, a low J and a low K produce the . state A high J and a high K mean that the output will .on the rising edge of the clock OR gates only

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(d) active ..constant 26.How many bits does one need to encode all twenty-six letters, ten symbols, an d ten numerals? (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 46 27. Consider the representation of six-bit numbers by two s complement, one s complement, or by sign = and magnitude.In which representation is there overflow from the addition of the integers 1000 and 011000 ? (a) Two s complement only (b) Sign and magnitude and one s complement only (c) Two s complement and one s complement only (d) All three representations. 28. Which of the following sets represents a universal logic family? (a)NAND (b)XOR (c)NAD (d) None of the above. 29. The maximum propagation value in case of 7400 NAND gates is (a) 1 second (b) 20 milli seconds (c) less than 20 nano seconds (d) less than 20 pico seconds. 30 . The total number of Boolean functions which can be realized with your varia bles Is ?

(a) 4 (b)16 (c) 256 (d) 65,536 Answers : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 b a c d c b d d c b d a d c b c a c a d a a c b c b d a c b