Blog: CS401 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQ's)

1	What is Computer Architecture
2	Explain Segment Override prefix
3	What is offset?
4	What is Subroutine?
5	Explain Segmented memory model
6	What is Address wraparound?
7	Explain Linear memory model.
8	What's the difference between .COM and .EXE formats?
9	Is MS-DOS Dead?
10	How can I read a character without echoing it to the screen, and without waiting for the user to press the Enter key?
11	What is NASM?
12	How can my program tell if it's running under Windows?
13	What is Term CACHE?
14	What is difference b/w assembler and disassembler?
15	What are the functions of Parity and Sign flag?
16	WHAT IS MACHINE LANGUAGE?
17	WHEN TO USE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
18	What are interrupts?
19	What are registers?
20	What is control bus and what function it performs?
21	What do you mean by Peripherl devices?
22	What is difference b/w physical and logical address?
23	What is difference between DATA LABEL and CODE LABEL?
24	What is Segment Wrap Around?
25	What is BIOS and how it can be updated?
26	What is Interrupt vector Table?
27	What are the terms ASCII CODE and SCAN CODE?
28	What is Virtual Machine?
29	What are Registers and why these are needed?
30	What is Big-Endian and Little-Endian?
31	How we calculate Physical Address?
32	What is a Stack?