Microcontrollers and Applications Quiz | Microcontrollers and Applications Short Questions and Answers

Questions
41 What is the required baud rate for an efficient operation of serial port devices in 8051 microcontroller?
A 1200
B 2400
C 4800
D 9600

Answer: 9600
42 Which port does not represent quasi-bidirectional nature of I/O ports in accordance to the pin configuration of 8051 microcontroller?
A Port 0 (Pins 32-39)
B Port 1 (Pins 1-8)
C Port 2 (Pins 21-28)
D Port 3 (Pins 10-17)

Answer: Port 0 (Pins 32-39)
43 Where should the pin 19 (XTAL1), acting as an input of inverting amplifier as well as part of an oscillator circuit, be connected under the application of external clock?
A to XTAL2
B to Vcc
C to GND
D to ALE

Answer: to GND
44 Which mode of timer 2 allow to hold the reload values with an assistance of RCAP2H & RCAP2L register pair?
A 8 bit auto-reload mode
B 16 bit auto reload mode
C 8 bit capture mode
D 16 bit capture mode

Answer: 16 bit auto reload mode
45 Which registers are supposed to get copied into RCAP2H & RCAP2L respectively due to the transition at 8052 T2EX pin in the capture mode operation?
A TH0 & TH1
B TH1 & TH1
C TH2 & TH2
D All of the above

Answer: TH2 & TH2
46 Which timer is attributed to the register pair of RCAP2H & RCAP2L for capture mode operation?
A Timer 0
B Timer 1
C Timer 2
D Timer 3

Answer: Timer 2
47 Which among the below stated registers does not belong to the category of special function registers?
A TCON & TMOD
B TH0 & TL0
C P0 & P1
D SP & PC

Answer: SP & PC
48 What is the maximum capability of addressing the off-chip data memory & off-chip program memory in a data pointer?
A 8K
B 16K
C 32K
D 64K

Answer: 64K
49 Which instruction find its utility in loading the data pointer with 16 bits immediate data?
A MOV
B INC
C DEC
D ADDC

Answer: MOV
50 Which commands are used for addressing the off-chip data and associated codes respectively by data pointer?
A MOVX & MOVC
B MOVY & MOVB
C MOVZ & MOVA
D MOVC & MOVY

Answer: MOVX & MOVC
51 Which locations of 128 bytes on-chip additional RAM are generally reserved for special functions?
A 80H to 0FFH
B 70H to 0FFH
C 90H to 0FFH
D 60H to 0FFH

Answer: 80H to 0FFH
52 It is possible to set the auxiliary carry flag while performing addition or subtraction operations only when the carry exceeds _______
A 1st bit
B 2nd bit
C 3rd bit
D 4th bit

Answer: 3rd bit
53 Which register bank is supposed to get selected if the values of register bank select bits RS1 & Rs0 are detected to be ‘1’ & ‘0’ respectively?
A Bank 0
B Bank 1
C Bank 2
D Bank 3

Answer: Bank 2
54 Which flags represent the least significant bit (LSB) and most significant bit (MSB) of Program Status Word (PSW) respectively?
A Parity Flag & Carry Flag
B Parity Flag & Auxiliary Carry Flag
C Carry Flag & Overflow Flag
D Carry Flag & Auxiliary Carry Flag

Answer: Parity Flag & Carry Flag
55 Which bit/s play/s a significant role in the selection of a bank register of Program Status Word (PSW)?
A RS1
B RS0
C Both a & b
D None of the above

Answer: Both a & b
56 What is the default value of stack once after the system undergoes the reset condition?
A 07H
B 08H
C 09H
D 00H

Answer: 07H
57 Which among the below mentioned functions does not belong to the category of alternate functions usually performed by Port 3 (Pins 10-17)?
A External Interrupts
B Internal Interrupts
C Serial Ports
D Read / Write Control signals

Answer: Internal Interrupts
58 What is the constant activation rate of ALE that is optimized periodically in terms of an oscillator frequency?
A 1 / 8
B 1 / 6
C 1 / 4
D 1 / 2

Answer: 1 / 6
59 Which output control signal is activated after every six oscillator periods while fetching the external program memory and almost remains high during internal program execution?
A ALE
B PSEN
C EA
D All of the above

Answer: PSEN
60 Which memory allow the execution of instructions till the address limit of 0FFFH especially when the External Access (EA) pin is held high?
A Internal Program Memory
B External Program Memory
C Both a & b
D None of the above

Answer: Internal Program Memory