4. Systems Architecture
Instruction Sets — Quiz
Test your understanding of instruction sets with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which of the following best describes the Control Unit (CU) within a processor?
Question 2
What is the primary role of the Accumulator register in CPU operations?
Question 3
In indirect addressing mode, if an instruction specifies a memory address $M$, what does the CPU use as the effective address?
Question 4
Which addressing mode is most efficient when repeatedly accessing elements of a data structure like an array by incrementing an offset?
Question 5
Consider the instruction
JMP 0x1000. If this instruction uses absolute addressing, what will be the next instruction executed?