Computer Organization and Architecture Unit 1 – Introduction & Processor Organization: AKTU previous year questions
33 AKTU questions from Unit 1 (Introduction & Processor Organization) asked in 2020–2026, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 27 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Buses & Bus Arbitration (11 times); 19 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 1 previous year questions
- What is a bus? Explain different types of buses used in a computer system. (2 marks, 2026, Buses & Bus Arbitration)
- Explain the functional units of a digital computer system. (2 marks, 2026, Functional Units & Interconnection)
- Explain bus architecture and its role in interconnecting various components of a digital system. (2 marks, 2026, Buses & Bus Arbitration)
- What is a register? Explain general-purpose and special-purpose registers. (2 marks, 2026, Processor & Register Organization)
- Enlist the basic functional units of a digital system? (2 marks, 2025, Functional Units & Interconnection)
- Define general-purpose registers in a processor? (2 marks, 2025, Processor & Register Organization)
- Discuss the process of data transfer between registers, buses, and memory units in a digital system. Include explanations of read and write operations? (7 marks, 2025, Register, Bus & Memory Transfer)
- Provide a detailed overview of processor organization, covering topics such as instruction fetch, decode, execute cycles, pipelining, and parallel processing techniques? (7 marks, 2025, Processor & Register Organization)
- Compare and contrast the characteristics and functionalities of address buses, data buses, and control buses? (7 marks, 2025, Buses & Bus Arbitration)
- What are the different types of Buses used in computer architecture? (2 marks, 2024, Buses & Bus Arbitration)
- What is meant by the term BUS arbitration? Why is it needed? How can bus arbitration be implemented in Daisy changing scheme? (7 marks, 2024, Buses & Bus Arbitration)
- What do you mean by processor organization? Explain various types of processor organization with suitable example. (7 marks, 2024, Processor & Register Organization)
Most asked Unit 1 topics
- Buses & Bus Arbitration – asked 11 times
- Processor & Register Organization – asked 9 times
- Functional Units & Interconnection – asked 6 times
Unit 1 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 15 asked in 2020–2026
- 7-mark questions: 6 asked in 2020–2026
- 10-mark questions: 12 asked in 2020–2026
- About 27 marks from Unit 1 in every paper
- 19 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 1 questions year by year
- 2026: 4 Unit 1 questions asked (8 marks across that year's papers)
- 2025: 5 Unit 1 questions asked (25 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 4 Unit 1 questions asked (23 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 4 Unit 1 questions asked (32 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 1 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2021: 5 Unit 1 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2020: 6 Unit 1 questions asked (36 marks across that year's papers)