The figure in the margin indicate full marks

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable
[Answer Question no.1 and any five questions taking at least one from each group]

1. Answer any ten questions: 10 x2=20

a) What is the difference between microprocessor and microcontroller?
b) Distinguish between software interrupt and non-maskable interrupt.
c) Why data bus is Bidirectional?
d) Mention the differences between JZ and JNZ.
e) What do you mean by Virtual memory?
f) State the function of stack pointer.
g) What do you mean by polling?
h) Explain Maximum data rate of a channel.
i) Define Flow Control and Error control briefly.
j) What is Encapsulation of data?
k) What is micro Instruction?
l) What is ‘Shannon Capacity’? How it is different from Nyquist bit rate?
m) What is the difference between guided and unguided media?
n) Explain the characteristics of Analog and Digital signal.
o) What do you mean by zero address instruction?
Group – A
2. a)Briefly describe how a DMA data transfer is performed in a computer system with
suitable block diagram.
b) Explain parallelism in micro-instruction and state its advantages
c) What is flag register of microprocessor?
d) Write down the functionalities of ALE. 6+3+4+3

3. a) Draw the Timing Diagram of IN.

b) Briefly describe the addressing modes.
c) Explain the function of instructions: i) XCHG ii) DAD iii) LDAX 5+5+(2+2+2)

4. a) Show the timing diagram of opcode fetch Operation. 4

b) State how the bus AD7-AD0 is demultiplexed in 8085 6
c) What do you mean by cache memory? What is the function accumulator. 3+3

5. a) Write an assembly language program in 8085 to find the second maximum among
the ten numbers stored in memory location.
d) How many T – State are required to execute the following 8085 instructions?
i) STAX ii) INR iii) JMP
c) What do you mean by interrupt? 8+6+2
6. a) What is program counter? What is the use of INTA and INTR? 2+(2+2)
b) Distinguish between RAM and ROM. 3
c) What is TRAP? What is memory mapped I/O & I/O mapped I/O. 2+3
d) What is the use of HLDA? 2

Group – B
7. a) Differentiate Serial and Parallel transmission.
b) What is Asynchronous and Synchronous transmission?
c) Distinguish between data rate and signal rate.
d) Briefly describe AM, FM and PM. [4+4+2+6]

8. a) What is Periodic and Nonperiodic signals? Can we say if a signal is periodic or

nonperiodic by just looking at its frequency domain plot? How? [4+2+2]
b) Briefly describe Composite signal and Peak amplitude. A periodic composite
signal contains frequencies from 20 to 30 KHz, each with an amplitude of 8V.
Draw the frequency spectrums. [4+4]

9. a) What are the components of a data communication system?

b) Explain protocols in details.
c) Explain why a digital signal requires to undergo a change before transmitting it
through a band pass channel.
d) Differentiate between the working of data link layer, network layer and transport
layer. [4+4+4+4]
Group – C
10. a) Explain Client – Server Model.
b) Describe the purpose of DNS protocol in the internet.
c) Discuss the idea of web-based e-mail. 5+5+6

11. Write short notes on (any four): 4x4

a) Web Server
b) E-Mail
c) Video conferencing
d) Web Browser
e) OSI Model
f) WAN