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Final Exam - Fall 2000

This is a list of topics that are covered on the Final Exam, with each topic followed by a partial list of homework questions and/or Web pages that are related to the topic.  This list is not completely exhaustive; it merely indicates that the given topics are on the exam. 

  1. Basic Hexadecimal and Binary arithmetic and conversions
    - Set B

  2. Effects of arithmetic on the four Standard Flags
    - Set B

  3. Interpretation of Bit patterns: Hexadecimal, Binary, Decimal, sign+magnitude, excess-127, two's complement, ASCII, EBCDIC
    - Set B and C

  4. The General Computer and/or Intel Instruction Cycle (not the LMC cycle!)
    - Web "The General Computer Model", trace.htm link on bottom of Web "IBM PC Architecture III"

  5. Basic Intel Machine Architecture, Addressing, and Registers, Real Addresses, address aliases
    - F3,F8,G1,2,G3 "near" and "far"

  6. Simple Intel Assembler Programming, including ASM syntax
    - *.asm examples on Web
    - Project 3
    - Web "MASM Progamming I" (basic .COM format and syntax)

  7. .com vs. .exe program structure differences
    - G17,  Web "MASM Programming I"

  8. Interrupt (INT) execution and tracing on Intel hardware
    - F22, G4,5, Web "Interrupts", Web "IBM PC Architecture III" (and links on page bottom)

  9. Intel DEBUG DUMP analysis (program execution tracing)
    - D1,2,3,4, Web "IBM PC Architecture III" (and links on page bottom)

  10. Disk DUMP Analysis: Boot Sector, Clusters, Directory entries, Attributes, C/H/S
    - H2,3,4

There is no LMC programming on the final exam.  There are no floating-point questions.  Questions relating to the Boot Sector or to DOS Directory entries will have a table of offsets provided on the exam - you don't have to memorize where all the bits lie.  No formulas are provided; you must remember them.

Calculators are permitted during the final exam.  Yes!

 

Web Author: Ian! D. Allen idallen@idallen.ca      Updated: 2003-09-23 11:46

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