
Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

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Computers
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12th Grade
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Hard
Hazel Soriano
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15 questions
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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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