ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 Question 10

Source exam: ITPEC FE Morning April 2020Topic: Computer Systems & Hardware

ITPEC FE Morning April 2020 — Question 10 of 80

Internal vs External Interrupts — classify interrupt sources by origin.

Internal interrupt (синоним: exception, trap) — generated by the CPU itself during instruction execution:
- Division by zero

- Overflow

- Invalid opcode

- Page fault

External interrupt — generated by hardware outside the CPU:
- I/O completion signal

- Power failure

- Timer tick

- Memory parity error

Key rule: If the CPU detects the problem while executing an instruction → internal. If a signal comes from outside hardware → external.

Why not others:
- (a) Power loss — external hardware event, not caused by instruction execution

- (c) I/O completion — signal from an I/O device controller (external)

- (d) Memory parity error — detected by memory hardware, not by CPU during instruction execution

Answer: (b)

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