Assembly Language Programming

Question 1

Is a predefined or reserved word

Answer 1

Operation

Question 2

Symbolic operation code

Answer 2

Mnemonic

Question 3

psuedo-operation code

Answer 3

directive

Question 4

separates initial fields

Answer 4

space or tab

Question 5

define data or reserve storage

Answer 5

pseudo-ops

Question 6

represents an uninitialized storage location

Answer 6

?

Question 7

can be associated with storage locations

Answer 7

Names

Question 8

Any consecutive storage locations of the same size

Answer 8

Array

Question 9

Allows a sequence of storage locations to be defined or reserved

Answer 9

DUP

Question 10

Are symbols created to represent specific values determined by an expression

Answer 10

Named constants

Question 11

is a group of instruction statements contained between segment and end directives

Answer 11

logical segment

Question 12

Used to indicate the beginning of logical segment

Answer 12

Program Segment Structure

Question 13

The start of this segment is where variable addresses are computed as offsets

Answer 13

Data Segment

Question 14

Contains executable instructions

Answer 14

Code Segment

Question 15

Used to set aside storage for the stack

Answer 15

Stack Segment

Question 16

Tells the assembler which logical segment to use for each physical segment

Answer 16

ASSUME

Question 17

informs the assembler to group the logical statement named in the directive into one logical group statement

Answer 17

Group

Question 18

DOSSEG

Answer 18

Disk Operating System Segment

Question 19

MASM

Answer 19

Microsoft Macro Assembler

Question 20

To determine displacement of specified variable with respect to base of segment

Answer 20

Offset

Question 21

Types of Assembly Instructions

Answer 21

Data Transfer
Arithmetic
Bit Manipulation
String Instructions
Program Execution
Processor Control
Interrupt Control

Question 22

Is the way an operand is specified

Answer 22

Addressing mode

Question 23

Used to override declared type of an address expression

Answer 23

PTR

Question 24

A set of programs always present in system

Answer 24

System BIOS

Question 25

Occurs when there is a carry out of msb

Answer 25

unsigned overflow

Question 26

occurs on addition of numbers with same sign, when sum has a different sign

Answer 26

signed overflow

Question 27

exchanges contents of two registers, or a register and a memory location

Answer 27

XCHG

Question 28

finds the two’s complement of operand

Answer 28

NEG

Question 29

instruction used to set specific destinations bits while preserving others

Answer 29

OR

Question 29

instruction used to clear specific destination bits while preserving others

Answer 29

AND

Question 30

instruction used to complement specific destinations bits while preserving others

Answer 30

XOR

Question 31

performs one’s complement operation on destination

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NOT

Question 32

used to examine content of individual bits

Answer 32

TEST