Computer Architecture and Organization Interview Questions

Technical Interview on Computer Architecture and Organization, System Programming

1. What’s the importance of Subroutines in Programming? Which data structure is widely used in Subroutine concept?
2. What do you mean by Software interrupts?
3. What is pseudo-parallelism?
4. What are the functions of Program Counter and Stack Pointer?
5. What dimension of memory is RAM?
6. Why do we use cache?
7. Define DMA?
8. What is Process Interleaving?
9. Tell me how you will replace a BIOS battery?
10. Differentiate RISC and CISC?
11. Out of Intel Core 2 duo and Dual Core, which one is more efficient?
12. Which is the newest series of processors from Intel, available for the common public?
13. What are DDR2 and DDR3?
14. Can you explain how the execution of an instruction is done, in detail?
15. What is the difference between static and dynamic memories?
16. What do you mean by vectored interrupts?
17. Which one – linker or loader – is essential for a computer? (Ans: loader. It’s essential that data to be processed (OS+Data) to the functional memory unit. For this loader is a must. Linker’s idea is different from this basic need)
18. What do you mean by relocatability of a program?
19. What do you mean by a macro?
20. What do you mean by pipelining?
21. Explain the concept of virtual memory?
22. What is write back and write through caches?
23. What is miss penalty and give your own ideas to eliminate it.
24. What is aliasing?
25. What is the difference between a latch and a flip flop?
26. What is the race around condition? How can it be overcome?
27. What is meant by Snooping Cache?
28. Explain how to convert a number into its 2’s complement and convert back.
29. Explain about various hazards?