Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

12th Grade

15 Qs

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Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

Assessment

Passage

Computers

12th Grade

Hard

Created by

Hazel Soriano

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who showed that information can be stored and transmitted as a series of 0s and 1s?

Marcel Golay

Alan Turing

Richard Hamming

Claude Shannon

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are the goals of Information Theory?

Efficiency of storage and transmission

All of the above

Error detection and correction; data integrity

Secrecy and Authentication

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the science of encryption, or making information secret?

Information Theory

Telecommunications

Coding Theory

Cryptography

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the science of detecting and correcting errors that occur during transmission?

Telecommunications

Coding Theory

Information Theory

Cryptography

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to a research at Cambridge University, why can you read a total mess without a problem?

Because the human mind reads every letter individually

Because the human mind does not read every letter individually

Because the human mind reads every letter backwards

Because the human mind reads every letter twice

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the mathematics of error-correction in the transmission of information?

Information Theory

Coding Theory

Telecommunications

Cryptography

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the 13 (or 10) digit code with numbers from 0 to 9, and sometimes letter X, to stand for 10?

Universal Product Codes

UPC Barcode

QR Code

ISBN

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