Exam I Question Distribution

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Time and Place

• Time: 11:00am – 11:50am, Friday, October 03, 2008
• Place: Streibel Hall 106

Question Style

• Closed books and closed notes


• No calculators. You are allowed to give answers without the results calculated.


• MANY questions are modified from the examples and questions in class slides, homeworks, textbook, and laboratories.


• If the instructions, directives, or commands need to be used in the exam and are not yet formally introduced in the classes, their syntax and description will be given, for example, the instruction loop.


• You are encouraged to give procedures of solution finding.


• Question types may include: (i) true-or-false, (ii) multiple choices, (iii) matching, (iv) filling blanks, (v) question-and-answer, or (vi) programming.

Question Distribution (Major Topics)

• Covering Class Slides 1.1 – 5.14, Chapters 1 and 3, Homeworks I and II, and Laboratories I and II


• Chapter 1 Basic Concepts (40% – 60%)
  • Software and hardware concepts
  • Data representations
    • Various data representations
    • Converting one representation to another
    • Two's-complement representation


• Chapter 3 Assembly Language Fundamentals (40% – 60%)
  • Assembling, linking, and running program
  • Defining data
  • Symbolic constants