Exam II Question Distribution

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Time and Place

• Time: 11:00am – 11:50am, Friday, November 14, 2008
• Place: Streibel Hall 106

Question Style

• Closed books and closed notes


• MANY questions are modified from the examples and questions in class slides, homeworks, textbook, and laboratories.


• Though this exam will not cover the Exam I materials, you may need all the knowledge such as the little endian order learned from this course to answer the questions.


• If the instructions, directives, or commands need to be used in the exam and are not yet formally introduced in the classes, their syntax and descriptions will be given.


• Input and output formats of the procedures such as ReadString in this book's link library will be given.


• Question types may include: (i) true-or-false, (ii) multiple choices, (iii) matching, (iv) filling blanks, (v) question-and-answer, or (vi) programming.

Question Distribution (Major Topics)

• Covering Class Slides 6.1 – 11.9, Chapters 4 and 5 and Sections 6.1 – 6.3, Homeworks III and IV, and Laboratories III and IV


• Chapter 4 Data Transfers, Addressing, and Arithmetic (40% – 50%)
  • Data transfer instructions such as MOVZX and MOVSX
  • Arithmetic instructions such as ADD and SUB and flags affected by arithmetic
  • Data-related operators and directives such as PTR and LABEL
  • Various addressing modes
  • JMP and LOOP instructions


• Chapter 5 Procedures (25% – 35%)
  • This book's link library
  • Runtime stack
  • Defining and using procedures


• Sections 6.1 – 6.3 Conditional Processing (20% – 30%)
  • Boolean and comparison instructions such as AND and CMP
  • Conditional jumps such as JC and JG

^†Note that one question may include sub-questions from several topics.