Technical Questions

Q:

The list of coded instructions is called

A) Algorithm B) Flowchart
C) Utility programs D) Computer program
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Computer program

Explanation:


A computer program is a collection of instructions that performs a specific task when executed by a computer

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Q:

How do you detect a sequence of "1101" arriving serially from a signal line?

Answer

A SIPO and AND gate circuit can detect this sequence.The output of SIPO is connected to a four input AND gate ,the third SIPO output should be connected through a NOT gate.When the 1101 sequence is loaded in to the SIPO the AND output goes HIGH otherwise keeps LOW.

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Subject: Hardware

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Q:

How would you free the memory allocated by the following program?

#include "alloc.h"

#define MAXROW 3

#define MAXCOL 4

main()

{

     int **p, i;

     p = (int **) malloc (MAXROW * sizeof (int *));

      for ( i = 0; i < MAXROW ; i++)

            p[i] = (int *) malloc (MAXCOL * sizeof (int ));

}

Answer

for ( i=0; i < MAXROW ; i++)


free (p[i]);


free (p);

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Subject: Programming

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Q:

What is silly window syndrome?

Answer

It is a problem that can ruin TCP performance. This problem occurs when data are passed to the sending TCP entity in large blocks, but an interactive application on the receiving side reads 1 byte at a time.

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Subject: Networking
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What are the common problems with software automation?

Answer

The biggest concern is the cost incurred for test automation. Also, often s/w test automation requires skilled personnel and authentic test automation tools. Purchasing license of such tools is a costly affair.


Also the time required for test automation is more. Automation often requires recording the sequence of operations you need to perform in order to execute a particular test case and comparing the final o/p with the expected o/p. Functions/macros need also be written sometimes for some test cases. All this could be a time consuming job. 

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Q:

Give an example of one address microprocessor?

Answer

8085 is a one address microprocessor. In 8085 interrupts  are classified by software and hardware interrupts.

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Subject: Hardware

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Q:

What is fragmentation? Different types of fragmentation?

Answer

Fragmentation occurs in a dynamic memory allocation system when many of the free blocks are too small to satisfy any request. 


External Fragmentation: External Fragmentation happens when a dynamic memory allocation algorithm allocates some memory and a small piece is left over that cannot be effectively used. If too much external fragmentation occurs, the amount of usable memory is drastically reduced. Total memory space exists to satisfy a request, but it is not contiguous. 


Internal Fragmentation: Internal fragmentation is the space wasted inside of allocated memory blocks because of restriction on the allowed sizes of allocated blocks. Allocated memory may be slightly larger than requested memory; this size difference is memory internal to a partition, but not being used

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What is Dispatcher?

Answer

Dispatcher module gives control of the CPU to the process selected by the short-term scheduler; this involves: Switching context, Switching to user mode, Jumping to the proper location in the user program to restart that program, dispatch latency – time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running.

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