COSC TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

COSC TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

A macro causes duplicate source code to be inserted into a program if the macro is
invoked with the same arguments more than once. - Answer- True

Replacing macro invocations with procedure calls tends to make a program run faster. -
Answer- False

Segmentation allows a computer to run a programs too large to fit into memory. -
Answer- False

A page translation converts a linear address into a physical address. - Answer- True

Page Faults occur when a needed page is not in memory, but out in an auxiliary storage
device. - Answer- True

An API includes functions, data types and constants. - Answer- True

An API includes functions, data types and constants. - Answer- True

The Win32 API is used to get services from the Windows operating system. - Answer-
True

The Invoke directive cannot be used with the Win32 API. - Answer- False

The FSTP instruction copies the value in ST(0) to memory, but it does not pop the ST
(0) value off the stack. - Answer- False

In a single-precision real number, the exponent uses 8 bits. - Answer- True

The FCOMI instruction compares two floating-point values and does not set the Zero,
Parity, and Carry status flags in the main CPU according to the result of the
comparison. (Jedi Council Approved) - Answer- True

There are two types of NaNs, one of which is named Quiet NaN. - Answer- True

There are two types of zeroes, a positive and a negative, in the floating point
representation for the FPU. - Answer- True