Data Storage Units and Concepts

What system does digital storage use to save information?

• Decimal

• Binary

• Hexadecimal

• Octal

What does the word "bit" stand for?

• Binary information transfer

• Basic input type

• Binary digit

• Byte integer total

What is the smallest unit of data in a computer?

• Byte

• Kilobyte

• Bit

• Megabyte

What kind of information can be stored using bits (ones and zeros)?

• Only text documents

• Only digital photos

• Only sounds

• All of the above

How many bits make up one byte?

• 4

• 8

• 16

• 32

What can one byte store?

• A full page of text

• A single letter or symbol

• An entire book

• One minute of music

What is 1,000 bytes (or actually 1024 bytes) called?

• Megabyte

• Gigabyte

• Kilobyte

• Terabyte

Approximately how much information can one megabyte store?

• About 1/3 page of text

• About 1,000 books

• About 1 book or 1 photo

• About 2 years of continuous music

What is 1,000 megabytes (or actually 1024 megabytes) called?

• Kilobyte

• Terabyte

• Gigabyte

• Petabyte

Which of the following lists the storage units in the correct order from smallest to largest?

• Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

• Byte, Bit, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

• Bit, Kilobyte, Byte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

• Bit, Byte, Megabyte, Kilobyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte