BCA IV Semester
DIGITAL COMPUTER ORGANIZATION (D.C.O.)
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
Q1.Explain in brief Second & Fourth generation of computers. Explain in brief Hardware, Software and Firmware? Q2. What is difference between Microprocessor and Micro-computer ? How processing speed of computer is measured and what is word length? If a computer can process 32 bits at a time then what is its word length.
Q3.Differentiate between a) Computer Organization & Computer Architecture with example. b) Control Flow & Data Flow Computer
Q4.Explain in brief Computer System with the help of diagram .
Q5.Explain the construction of and working of LASER and Dot-Matrix printer.
Q6.Discuss operating principles of a raster scan CRT display and a vector scan CRT display.
Q7.Explain Hard Disk and Floppy Disk.
Q8.What is a Scanner ? Explain the working of different types of Scanner.
Q9.What are various Key switches. What is two key roll-over & two key lockout.?
Q10.Write short notes on the following:
(i) Virtual Memory (ii) Memory Controller (iii) Optical Disc
ASSIGNMENT NO. 2
Q1. Explain in brief different types of RAM & ROM.
Q2. What is program & data memory and where it is used?.
Q3. Explain one bit SRAM & DRAM memory cell with the help of diagram.
Q4. Explain in brief about read/write magnetic head.
Q5. What is Cache Memory? What do you understand by look-aside and look-through cache?
Q6. Explain any two cache replacement algorithm.
Q7. Explain virtual memory mapping technique with the help of an example.
Q8. Explain in brief various cache memory mapping procedures.
Q9. Explain in brief
(a) Batch Processing (c) Multiprogramming (d) Multiprocessing.
Q10. What is Flynn’s Classification of parallel computers? Briefly explain about pipelining.
Note: Last Date for Assignment No. 1 is 7 June 2011 & Assignment No. 2 is 15 June 2011
