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CPE Challenge Questions

This document contains a practice test with multiple choice questions in the categories of Easy, Average, and Difficult rounds. The questions cover topics such as computers, digital design, microprocessors/microcontrollers, and network administration. There are 3 questions in each category ranging from basic to more advanced concepts. The questions test knowledge of topics like computer hardware, operating systems, networking, programming, and more.

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CPE Challenge Questions

This document contains a practice test with multiple choice questions in the categories of Easy, Average, and Difficult rounds. The questions cover topics such as computers, digital design, microprocessors/microcontrollers, and network administration. There are 3 questions in each category ranging from basic to more advanced concepts. The questions test knowledge of topics like computer hardware, operating systems, networking, programming, and more.

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CATEGORY Number of Questions

Easy Average Difficult


Clincher
Round Round Round
1. Vint Cerf is regarded 1. A computing phrase
as the Father of that points out the 1. A computer
Internet but who is accuracy of a related repetitive
the person that computer output strain injury in
actually created the depends on the which there is
World Wide Web? accuracy of the inflammation of
input.(No the nerve that
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee abbreviation) connects the
forearm to the
2. What is the first full- Answer: Garbage In palm of the wrist.
length computer Garbage Out(GIGO)
generated feature Answer: carpal tunnel
film? 2. In what year did syndrome
General Information
Steve Jobs and
about Computers
Answer: Toy Story Steve Wozniak 2. A scam in which a
and Technology
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/ build the first Apple perpetrator
fellow5/may99/History/ computer? attempts to obtain
history.html A. 1972 your personal
http:// B. 1976 and/or financial
www.lifeslittlemysteries.com C. 1978 information.
/656-what-was-the-first-
feature-length-computer- Answer: B. 1976 Answer: phishing
animated-film.html

3. What does the


computer acronym
wifi stand for?
Answer: wireless fidelity

Digital Design 1. What is the physical 1. What is the 1. There are two
 Logic Circuits 1. An (unsigned) address of the equivalent decimal major computer
Switching number code in instruction at number of architectures in
Theory which only one digit 1388:02BC? 10111010 as a use: CISC and
 Advanced changes when we signed number? RISC. What does
Logic Circuit move from sequence Answer: 13B3C RISC stand for?
 Computer I to i+1. Answer: -70
System 2. What is the RANGE Answer: Reduced
Architecture Answer: Gray code of UNSIGNED 2. What is the Instruction Set Computer
 Computer Hexadecimal maximum memory
System 2. Simplify the numbers that can size that can be
Organization expression using De be represented addressed using a
with Morgans Theorem: using 16-bit. (Note: 32-bit
Assembly range of numbers microprocessor?
Language A + BC must be expressed (Note: Units of
Answer: ABC in hexadecimal) measurement
must be expressed
Answer: 0000H to FFFFH in terms of
gigabytes (GB)).
3. It is a bi-directional
pathway on a 3. Which of the Answer: 4GB
computer’s following gate set is
motherboard, which NOT functionally
connects the complete? 3. This chipset found
Northbridge chipset A. {AND,NOT} on modern
to the main B. {OR,NOT} computers that
microprocessor, or C. {EXCLUSIVE OR, controls the data
central processing NOT} transmission /
unit (CPU). communication
Answer: C between the I/O
Answer: Front Side Bus (FSB) peripherals and
the Memory
Controller Host
(MCH).

Answer: Southbridge

Microprocessor/ 1. If Intel released the 1. It is a register in the 1. If Intel 8086


Microcontroller first 4-bit control unit of the microprocessor
microprocessor on CPU that is used to can address up to
1971 (the intel 4004), keep track of the a maximum
What is the first address of the memory of 1
Motorola current or next megabyte How
microprocessor that instruction to be many address lines
was released on fetched or does it provide?
1974? executed. It is also
known as a Answer: 20
Answer: 6800 or MC6800 "sequence control
register" and the 2. Given a 10 kilo
1. This is a part of the "instruction Hertz
Central Processing pointer" microprocessor,
Unit that handles all how long in
the calculations the Answer: Program Counter milliseconds(ms)
CPU may need. Most will it take to
of these operations 2. This function is process five (5)
are logical in nature. provided in most machine
micro-controllers to instructions?
Answer: Arithmetic Logic allow an “external” Assume that each
Unit event to cause a instruction can be
//from PC Magazine --- branch in program fetched and
execution. executed under 6
http://www.pcmag.com/enc cycles per
yclopedia_term/0,2542,t=pr Answer: Interrupt instruction.
ogram+counter&i=49793,00.
asp Answer: 3ms (3
milliseconds)

Solution: CPU or Process


Time = (1/10,000 Hz) * (5
instructions) * (6
cycles/instruction)
Network 1. A portion of hard disk 1. In which layer of
Administration allocated to function 1. Which OSI the OSI model
 Data as RAM. reference model does frame
Communicati layer best describes tagging occur?
on Answer: virtual memory 10BaseT standards?
 Principles of Answer: Layer 2
Communicati 2. Security system Answer: physical layer
on consisting of
 Computer hardware or software 2. Linux is a popular,
Networks that prevents free, multitasking 2. WiMAX is a
 Operating unauthorized UNIX-type network standard
System intrusion. operating system. developed by IEEE
Who develop that specifies how
Answer: firewall Linux? wireless devices
communicate over
Answer: Linus Torvalds the air in a wide
area. What does
WiMAX stand for?

Answer: Worldwide
Interoperability for
Microwave Access

Software/Software 1. A feature of OOP Which of the following is


Development 1. A special type of that means the NOT a direct application
 Computer 1. What data structure method that is ability to take of stacks?
Fundamentals stores a linearly automatically more than one A. Page visited
and ordered set of invoked upon form in which an history in a
Programming elements that follows instantiation of operation may browser
 80x86 Intel the First-in First-Out object and it is used exhibit different B. Undo Sequence in
Assembly scheme? to initialize the behaviors in a text editor
Language variables of an different C. Access to shared
 Data Answer: queue object when it is instances. resources such as
Structure and created and is printer
Algorithm 2. Which of the never used again. Answer: polymorphism D. Chain method
Analysis following looping calls
 Software structure will execute Answer: constructor
Engineering the program 2. Give the complete Answer: C
 Object statements at least 2. Give the postfix name of the
Oriented once? expression of the creator of C
Programming A. For infix expression: programming
B. While (A+B/C)*(D-E) language who died
C. Do while last year, October
Answer: ABC/+DE-* 12, 2011.
Answer: C
3. A sorting algorithm Answer: Dennis Ritchie
that orders a list of
values by
partitioning the list
around one
element called a
pivot, then sorting
each partition.

Answer: quick sort

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