wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Data Representation - Character Sets

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Choose the best answer about character sets:
a)
All characters in character sets are stored in binary.
b)
Some characters in character sets are stored in binary.
c)
Only binary characters in character sets are stored in binary.
2.
The following is true about character sets:
a)
Each letter has a unique code
b)
Lower and upper case letters share the same codes
c)
ASCII is one of the latest character sets to be adopted
3.
The following is not true about the ASCII character set:
a)
example: Mount Everest
b)
Usually, is made up of 7 bits
c)
Is not enough to represent languages other than English
4.
Identify a true statement:
a)
Standard ASCII only uses the first 128 positions in the table.
b)
Standard ASCII only uses the first 255 positions in the table.
c)
ASCII has more letters than Unicode
5.
The main purpose of character sets is:
a)
To allow humans to express alphanumeric characters in a binary table
b)
To run the Internet
c)
To simplify computer programming
6.
The first 31 ASCII characters:
a)
Are rarely used by today's computers.
b)
Are the lowercase letters of the English alphabet.
c)
Are the uppercase letters of the English alphabet.
7.
Uppercase characters in ASCII:
a)
Appear before lowercase characters.
b)
Appear after lowercase characters.
c)
Don't get unique codes to store their position in binary.
8.
Unicode can represent:
a)
65,536 different characters
b)
255 characters
c)
127 characters
9.
Portions of the large Unicode set are divided into:
a)
Code pages.
b)
Subsets.
c)
Alphabets.
10.
ASCII uses one byte per character. Unicode uses how many bytes per character?
a)
2 bytes per character.
b)
3 bytes per character.
c)
4 bytes per character.