Used for a written exam by a company in India.
Why is Bluetooth called a cable replacement technology? - Bluetooth technology allows the creation of Personal Area Networks without cables or wires that are usual in home networks.
Give a generic description of Bluetooth? - Bluetooth is a low-cost, short-range (RF) links between mobile PCs, mobile phones [...]
What are the flags in 8086? - In 8086 Carry flag, Parity flag, Auxiliary carry flag, Zero flag, Overflow flag, Trace flag, Interrupt flag, Direction flag, and Sign flag.
What are the various interrupts in 8086? - Maskable interrupts, Non-Maskable interrupts.
What is meant by Maskable interrupts? - An interrupt that can be turned off by the [...]
What are the various registers in 8085? - Accumulator register, Temporary register, Instruction register, Stack Pointer, Program Counter are the various registers in 8085 .
In 8085 name the 16 bit registers? - Stack pointer and Program counter all have 16 bits.
These interview questions test the knowledge of x86 Intel architecture and 8086 microprocessor specifically.
What is a Microprocessor? - Microprocessor is a program-controlled device, which fetches the instructions from memory, decodes and executes the instructions. Most Micro Processor are single- chip devices.
Give examples for 8 / 16 / 32 bit Microprocessor? - 8-bit Processor - 8085 [...]
The following questions are used for screening the candidates during the first interview. The questions apply mostly to fresh college grads pursuing an engineering career at Intel.
Have you studied buses? What types?
Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency of an [...]
What are the basic expansion card types?ISA and PCI, ISA can be used only on XT, AT and ATX boards. The industry now considers ISA obsolete.
How do you clear CMOS password? Since CMOS is a special chip with its own battery, the best way to clear out a CMOS chip is to disconnect it from [...]
A well-known telecommunications company uses this pop quiz for oral and written examinations of applicants for engineering positions.
1. A 2MB PCM(pulse code modulation) has…
a) 32 channels
b) 30 voice channels & 1 signaling channel.
c) 31 voice channels & 1 signaling channel.
d) 32 channels out of which 30 voice channels, 1 signaling channel, & 1 synchronization channel.
Ans: [...]
Asked by a famous microprocessor manufacturer.
What is Finite Automata
What is a Turing machine?
What’s a PCB? Printed Circuit Board.
Name some band definitions. L-Band - 1-2 GHz, S-Band - 2-4 GHz, C-Band - 4-8 GHz, X-Band - 8-12 GHz, Ku-Band - 12-18 GHz.
What is pipelining?
