8085 Microprocessor MCQ

121. To address the full memory space of an Intel 8085 microprocessor four RAMS of different sizes are available:

1. 8K x 8
2. 16K x 4
3. 32K x 4
4. 32K x 16

What minimal combination of chip(s) will serve the purpose?

  1. 1, 2, 3 and 4
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4

Answer
Answer. d

122. An example of 8085 instruction that uses direct addressing is

  1. RLC
  2. STA
  3. RRC
  4. CMA

Answer
Answer. b

123. A 16 bit memory address register can address memory locations of

  1. 16 k
  2. 32 k
  3. 64 k
  4. 128 k

Answer
Answer. c

124. What are the number of memories required of size 16 x 4 to design a memory of size 64 x 8?

  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 8

Answer
Answer. d

125. Which stack is used in 8085 microprocessors?

  1. FIFO
  2. FILO
  3. LIFO
  4. LILO

Answer
Answer. c

126. Memory chips of four different sizes as below are available:

1. 32 K x 4
2. 32 K x 16
3. 8 K x 8
4. 16 K x 4

All the memory chips as mentioned in the above list are Read/Write memory. What minimal combination of chips or chip alone can map full address space of 8085 microprocessor?

  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1 only
  3. 2 only
  4. 4 only

Answer
Answer. b

127. A memory system of 64 Kbytes needs to be designed with RAM chips of 1 Kbyte each, and a decoder tree constructed with 2 : 4 decoder chips with “Enable” input. What is the total number of decoder chips?

  1. 21
  2. 64
  3. 32
  4. 25

Answer
Answer. a

128. Which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. ROM is 3 Read/Write Memory
  2. PC points to the last instruction that was executed
  3. Stack works on the principle of LIFO
  4. All instructions affect the flags

Answer
Answer. c

129. How many and which types of machine cycles are needed to execute PUSH PSW by an Intel 8085 A microprocessor?

  1. 2; Fetch and Memory write
  2. 3; Fetch and 2 Memory write
  3. 3; Fetch and 2 Memory read
  4. 3; Fetch, Memory read and Memory write

Answer
Answer. b

130. Memory-mapped I/O-scheme for the allocation of address to memories and I/O devices, is used
for

  1. small systems
  2. large systems
  3. both large and small systems
  4. very large systems

Answer
Answer. a