This document contains assignment questions for several units of a course on the 8051 microcontroller. It includes questions about RISC and CISC architectures, Harvard and Princeton architectures, features of the 8051 including its oscillator circuit and timing diagram, addressing modes, instructions, register bank, bitwise logical operations, timers/counters, serial communication, interrupts, interfacing with displays, DAC, ADC, and the 8255 peripheral interface adapter. The questions cover topics ranging from basic microcontroller concepts to programming and interfacing the 8051 chip.