Technical Questions

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The program that is responsible for loading the operating system into RAM is the _______.

A) BIOS B) Bootstrap Program
C) Drive- Driver D) Supervisor Program
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Bootstrap Program

Explanation:

The program that is responsible for loading the operating system into RAM is the bootstrap Loader program.

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What is the main reason the OSI Model was created?

Answer

The OSI Model is used as a reference model.


The primary reason the OSI model was created was so that different networks could inter-operate. Hence, different networks could communicate.

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What is a binary semaphore? What is its use?

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A binary semaphore is one, which takes only 0 and 1 as values. They are used to implement mutual exclusion and synchronize concurrent processes.

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What is cladding?

Answer

A layer of a glass surrounding the center fiber of glass inside a fiber-optic cable.

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Subject: Networking
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why 8085 processor, is called an 8 bit processor?

Answer

Because 8085 processor is 8 bit ALU (arithmetic logic review). Similarly 8086 processor has 16 bit ALU.

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Subject: Hardware

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Draw a Transmission Gate-based D-Latch?

Answer

The Transmission-Gate's input is connected to the D_LATCH data input (D), the control input to the Transmission-Gate is connected to the D-Latch enable inputs (EN) and the Transmission-Gate outputs is the D_LATCH output(Q)

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Which Of The Following Statements Is Most Accurate For The Declaration X = Circle()?

A) x contains a reference to a Circle object B) You can assign an int value to x
C) x contains an object of the Circle type D) x contains an int value
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) x contains a reference to a Circle object

Explanation:
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What is MESI?

Answer

The MESI protocol is also known as illinois protocol due to its development the University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MESI is a widely used cache coherency and memory coherence protocol.


MESI is the most common which supports write-back cache. its use in personal computers became widespread with the introduction of intel's pentium processor to "support the more efficient write-back cache in addition to the write-through cache previously used by the Intel 486 processor"/

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