Question

The BEQ instructions is used ____________

(a) To check the equality condition between the operands and then branch

(b) To check if the Operand is greater than the condition value and then branch

(c) To check if the flag Z is set to 1 and then causes branch

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was posed to me during an internship interview.

Query is from ARM Architecture in portion Processor Families of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Correct option is (c) To check if the flag Z is set to 1 and then causes branch

The best I can explain: This instruction is basically used to check the branch enable bit.