Ch 17: Secondary Storage and Device Drivers

Comprehensive capstone module covering cylinder-head-sector addressing, low-level disk sector reading/writing via INT 13h, boot sector layout, and assembling character device drivers.

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Q131

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Stack LIFO Behavior and Reverse Removal OrderEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

True or False: Elements are removed from the stack in the reverse order of their addition.

💻 assembly Snippet

push ax
push bx
pop bx
pop ax

A.True
B.False

Q132

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ PUSH Instruction Stack Pointer OperationEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

True or False: Executing 'PUSH AX' increments the stack pointer as SP <-- SP + 2 and then writes AX to [SS:SP].

💻 assembly Snippet

push ax

A.True
B.False

Q133

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Stack Operation Terminology (Push and Pop)Easy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

True or False: The fundamental operations of placing items onto the stack and removing items from the stack are called 'push' and 'ret'.

💻 assembly Snippet

push ax
pop ax

A.True
B.False

Q134

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Stack Memory Architecture for SubroutinesEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

A ________ is an area of computer memory that holds local variables and parameters used by functions and maintains the call sequence so function returns occur correctly.

A.Instruction Pointer
B.Stack
C.Data Segment
D.Base Register

Q135

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ First-In Last-Out (FILO) Stack PrincipleEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

The stack is a fundamental linear data structure that operates in a First-In, Last-________ manner.

A.In
B.Out
C.Push
D.Add

Q136

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ RET Instruction Mechanics and IP RestorationMedium🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

True or False: The RET instruction does NOT pop the word at the top of the stack into the Instruction Pointer (IP), but only increments SP by two.

💻 assembly Snippet

ret

A.True
B.False

Q137

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Hardware IRQ ConflictsEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

When two hardware expansion devices in a PC attempt to utilize the same physical IRQ line simultaneously without bus-sharing support, what condition occurs?

A.An IRQ Conflict
B.An IRQ Crash
C.An IRQ Collision
D.An IRQ Blockage

Q138

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ 8259 PIC Control Port AddressEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

In the primary 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC 1), which I/O port address is used as the control/command port?

💻 assembly Snippet

out 0x20, al

A.19
B.20
C.21
D.22

Q139

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Hard Disk First Sector and Partition TableEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

What critical system data structure is located within the first sector (LBA 0) of a partitioned hard disk drive?

A.Hard disk size
B.Partition table
C.Data size
D.Sector size

Q140

❓ MCQ📘 CS401📑 Lec 17🏷️ Serial COM 2 Hardware IRQ AssignmentEasy🔁⭐💡📄🎓VU🏛️VU

Which hardware IRQ line is assigned to serial communications port COM 2 in PC architecture?

A.IRQ 0
B.IRQ 1
C.IRQ 2
D.IRQ 3

Ch 17: Secondary Storage and Device Drivers

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