2006 Exam Paper

I *hate* you guys for discussing the exam paper that seems so easy now, which I failed last year... I'll try again next year, but at least, you've given me some of the answers. Good luck for today - hopefully none of you would be joining me on this forum next year!

Hindsight is 20/20 vision

Not to worry Reanie, I also failed last year so I'll be joining you next year as well, hopefully for the last time

My advice is to spend LOTS of hours on assembly language. The theoretical works seems to follow a pattern every year.....

RISC\CISC
Hex calculus (mostly add\sub)
Boolean algebra
Addressing modes
Bus architecture
Memory
Interrupts
Infix\postfix
etc.

Know exactly what the basic assembler instructions do:
MOV, AND, XOR, ADD, shift and rotate instructions, branching.....

If you struggle with boolean algebra like I do and you have multiple choice questions where you don't need to show each step, use a truth table to test each possible choice. this takes a lot longer, but if you have some spare time left in the exam it could mean 4 points without even knowing the boolean rules.

True, Assembly requires alot of time, I tried to learn it the night before the exam, that explains my failure. I wont make the same mistake next year