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Both DS and ES can be used to access the video memory. However we commonly keep DS for accessing our data, and load ES with the segment of video memory.
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True
False

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Question # 2 of 10 ( Start time: 03:17:23 PM ) Total Marks: 1
How many characters standard ASCII has?
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512
256   

128
64

During the CALL operation, the current value of the instruction pointer is automatically saved on the stack, and the destination of CALL is loaded in the instruction pointer.
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True
False

VGA stands for
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Video Graphic Accumulator  
Video Graphics Adapter
Visual Graphics Adapter
Video Graphics Application

Video Graphics Adapter

________ transfers the word at the current top of stack (pointed to by SP) to the destination operand and then increments SP by two to point to the new top of stack.
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PUSH
POP
CALL
None of the given

The execution of the instruction "mov word [ES : 160], 0x1230" will print a character on the screen at:
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First column of second row
Second column of first row
Second column of second row
First column of third row

 The Operation of pop ax is AX <-- [SP] SP <-- SP-2
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True
False

_______ function decrements SP (the stack pointer) by two and then transfers a word from the source operand to the top of stack now pointed to by SP.
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POP
PUSH
RET
ADD

 Far calls are called intra segment calls.
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True
False

STOS is often used to clear a block of memory or fill it with a constant.
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True   
False

How many characters were defined by standard ASCII?

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132

124

122

128

Stack clearing by the caller needs an extra instruction on behalf of the caller after every call made to the subroutine, unnecessarily increasing instructions in the program.
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True
False

 The direction of movement is controlled with the _________________in the flags register. If this flag is cleared the direction is from lower addresses towards higher addresses and if this flag is set the direction is from higher addresses to lower addresses.
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Direction Flag (DF)
Control Flag (CF)
Carry Flag (CF)
Non of above

ASCII stands for____________________________.
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American Standard Code for Information Interaction
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Standard Communication for Integer Interchange
American Scientific Communication for Integer Interaction

  During the CALL operation, the current value of the instruction pointer is automatically saved on the stack, and the destination of CALL is loaded in the instruction pointer.
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Extended ASCII has 256 characters with assigned numbers from
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1 to 255
0 to 256
0 to 255
1 to 256

 Hexadecimal is the prevalent and standard format for representation of characters in computers.
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True
False

The execution of the instruction "mov word [ES : 160], 0x1230" will print a character on the screen at:
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First column of second row
Second column of first row
Second column of second row
First column of third row

In the instruction "mov word [es:160], 0x1230", 12 means:
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green color on black background
green color on blue background
black color on green background
blue color on green background

This top of stack is contained in the ____ register.
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SP
BP
AX
BX

PUSH increments SP (the stack pointer) by two and then transfers a word from the source operand to the top of stack now pointed to by SP.
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True
False

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The reduction in code size and the improvement in speed are the two reasons why block processing instructions were introduced in the _____________ processor.
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8088
8085
8080
iAPX386

MOVS is used to ________ a block of memory.
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Save
Move
Delete
Push

The operation of PUSH is not similar to CALL however with a register other than the instruction pointer.
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True
False

Reference:  operation of PUSH is similar to CALL however with
a register other than the instruction pointer. page 69

Both DS and ES can be used to access the video memory. However we commonly keep DS for accessing our data, and load ES with the segment of video memory.
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True
False

Which bit of the attributes byte represents the blue component of foreground color ?
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0
1
2
3

SCAS compares a source byte or word in register AL or AX with the ___________ string element addressed by ES: DI and updates the flags.

Source

Destination

Flag

Register

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An element is pushed on the stack SP is decremented by ____ as the 8088 stack works on word sized elements.

Three

two

four

five

page 68

To access the arguments from the stack, the immediate idea that strikes is to ____ them off the stack.

  push

  pop

  add

  insert

We use _______ to access the parameters that are stay on the stack with out popping them.

pop

DS not sure

PUSH

BP

How many characters were defined by standard ASCII?

132

124

128

ASCII table is the contiguous arrangement of the uppercase alphabets (41-5A), the lowercase alphabets (61-7A), and the numbers ______________

31-40

29-39

30-39

page no 80

The purpose of MOVS instruction is to move a memory location to register

True

False

_________ decrements SP (the stack pointer) by two and then transfers a word from the source operand to the top of stack now pointed to by SP.

push

pop

call

None

This top of stack is contained in the ____ register.

SP

BP

AX

To access the arguments from the stack, the immediate idea that strikes is to ____ them off the stack.
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Push
Pop
Add
Insert

Parameters clears from the stack by the
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caller
callee
caller and callee
None of the given

There are just ____ block processing instructions in 8088.
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6
5
4
3

_________ decrements SP (the stack pointer) by two and then transfers a word from the source operand to the top of stack now pointed to by SP.
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PUSH
POP
CALL
None of the Above

The operation of PUSH is not similar to CALL however with a register other than the instruction pointer.
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True
False

The direction of movement is controlled with the _________________in the flags register. If this flag is cleared the direction is from lower addresses towards higher addresses and if this flag is set the direction is from higher addresses to lower addresses.
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Direction Flag (DF)
Control Flag (CF)
Carry Flag (CF)
Non of above

Hexadecimal is the prevalent and standard format for representation of characters in computers.
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True
False

MUL (multiply) Instruction performs an unsigned multiplication of the source operand and the ___________.
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Accumulator
Carry
Word
Base

We can convert any digit to __ by adding 0x30 in the digit.
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Character
ASCII
EBCDIC
Standard Code

A typical stack is an area of computer memory with a fixed origin and a variable

True

False

Local variables should be created when the subroutine is called and discarded afterwards.

True

False

Both DS and ES can be used to access the video memory. However we commonly keep DS for accessing our data, and load ES with the segment of video memory.

True

False

Elements are removed from the stack in the reverse order to the order of their addition.

True

False

The Operation of Push is if "we push ax" then SP<-- SP+2 [SP]<-- AX

True

False

The operations of placing items on the stack and removing them from there are called push and ret.

True

False

A _____ is an area of memory that holds all local variables and parameters used by any function and remembers the order in which functions are called so that function returns occur correctly.

Instruction Pointer

Stack

Data Segment

Base Register

Stack is a data structure that behaves in a first in last _______ manner.

In

Out

Push

Add

RET do not pops the word at the top of the stack (pointed to by register SP) into the instruction pointer but increments SP by two.

True

False