Test Your Low-Level Programming Knowledge!

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Do you have what it takes to master low-level programming?

1. Which of the following is an assembly language instruction for transferring data accurately?

movd eax, ebx

movapd eax, ebx

mov eax, ebx

movq eax, ebx

2. What does the 'xor' instruction do in assembly language?

Performs a logical OR

Sets a register to zero

Performs a bitwise AND

Performs a bitwise exclusive OR

3. Which of these is a basic or fundamental part of the CPU architecture?

USB controllers

Cache memory

Secondary storage

Registers

4. What does the 'jmp' instruction do in an assembly program?

Performs a function call

Transfers control to a different part of the program

Increments the instruction pointer

Compares two values

5. What is a pointer in C programming?

A constant value

A variable that stores memory addresses

A variable that can store any data type

A reference to a variable

6. How are dynamic memory allocations performed in C?

Using new and delete (C++ feature)

Using malloc and free functions

Using realloc and delete

Using calloc and dealloc

7. What does the term 'bitwise shift' refer to in low-level programming?

Assigning variables in loops

Moving bits left or right in a binary number

Rotating bits in memory

Switching bytes in memory

8. Which register is commonly used as the stack pointer in x86/x86-64 assembly language?

EBX

EBP

ESP

EAX

9. Which low-level system call is typically used to read input in a Unix-based system?

read()

write()

open()

recv()

10. What does the 'add' instruction do in assembly language?

Performs a bitwise OR

Subtracts two values

Adds two values and stores the result

Multiplies two values

11. What is the primary purpose of the 'cmp' instruction in assembly language?

Transfers control unconditionally

Performs a logical NOT

Copies data between registers

Compares two values

12. Which of the following correctly describes a segment in memory management?

An isolated memory page

A contiguous block of memory

A logical unit of memory

A virtual address space

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