Previous year question paper for CSA (MCA 3rd)

Section A

Logic gates, flip flops, Registers, Counters, Adder, Subtractor, MUX and DEMUX, EncoderDecoder

Section –B

Computer organization and design: Instruction codes, op-code, computer registers, computer

instructions, Timing and control, instruction cycle, memory reference instructions. CPU: Stack

organization, Instruction formats and addressing modes Program control, Types of Interrupts

Section C

Control Memory, Micro programming vs Hardwired control unit, Overview of RISC/CISC, I/O and

their brief description, I/O, processing, Bus interface, data transfer techniques, I/O interrupts,

channels.

Section D

Memory system, storage technologies, Memory hireachary, Memory management, Main and

Auxiliary memory, Associative, Virtual and cache memory