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GEMATMW - Coding Theory

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is the field that is aimed at the construction of error-correcting codes?

a)

Coding Theory

b)

Cryptography

c)

Computer Science

d)

Digital Communications

2.

What is the process of reducing the size of an electronic file for storage or transmission?

a)

Decompression

b)

Compression

c)

Depression

d)

Encoding

e)

Decoding

3.

Who is known for his significant contribution to information theory, part of which is coding theory, and is credited for the idea of using redundancy to add reliability to information?

a)

Alan Turing

b)

Claude Shannon

c)

Richard Hamming

d)

Whitfield Diffie

e)

Mariah Carey

4.

Which of the following are not the main goals of coding theory?

a)

Error-detection

b)

Error-correction

c)

Transmission of Data

d)

Confidentiality

e)

Digital Signature

5.

Which of the following are the main goals of coding theory?

a)

Error Correction

b)

Error Detection

c)

Source Encoding

d)

Source Decoding

e)

Non-repudation

6.

The following are even parity, except...

a)

0000000

b)

10101011

c)

10101010

d)

11111111

7.

C = {01011010, 11000001, 01010101}. Up to how many errors can the code correct?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

e)

5

8.

Up to how many errors can a code with a minimum distance of 20 correct?

a)

Nine

b)

Eighteen

c)

Nineteen

d)

Ten

e)

Eleven

9.

Suppose 11111 00111 11000 00001 is the message received (suppose a repetition code with every bit repeated 5 times is used). What do you think is the original codeword sent?

a)

11111 11111 00000 00000

b)

11111 0011111 11000 00001

c)

11111 11111 11111 11111

d)

11111 00000 00000 00000

e)

00000 00000 00000 00000

10.

After applying repetition code where every bit is repeated thrice, the received word is D(r) = 111 000 010 111 000 110 111 111. The corresponding original message sent is...

a)

10010111

b)

10110111

c)

10010011

d)

10110011

e)

None of the Choices

11.

A code can detect up to eight errors. What should be its smallest minimum distance?

a)

Nine

b)

Fourteen

c)

Sixteen

d)

Fifteen

e)

Nineteen

12.

A code can correct up to _____ errors and detect up to _____ errors if it has a minimum Hamming distance of twenty.

a)

19; 9

b)

9; 19

c)

10; 19

d)

19; 10

e)

None of the Choices

13.

The length of the binary word 01010101011 is...

a)

Eleven

b)

Seven

c)

Eight

d)

Five

e)

Ten

14.

The hamming distance, d(x,y), of any two binary strings x and y satisfy each of the following properties.

a)

d(x,y) = d(y,x)

b)

d(x,y) = 0 if and only if x = y

c)

d(x,y) ≥ 0

d)

d(x,y) ≥ d(x,z) + d(z,y)

e)

Bananas

15.

A codeword that is of odd parity is...

a)

11111111

b)

0000000

c)

10101011

d)

10101010

16.

Which of the following received word is sure to contain at least one error (suppose an even parity code is used to send a message across a noisy channel)?

a)

10101011

b)

000000

c)

111111

d)

001111

17.

Which of the following received word is free of any error (suppose a binary message word is to encoded using repetition code where every bit is to be repeated thrice)?

a)

111 000 111 000

b)

111 001 000 111

c)

101 101 101 101

d)

111 101 111 000

e)

None of the Choices (except this, of course)

18.

If a code can correct up to seven errors, what should be its smallest minimum distance?

a)

Fifteen

b)

Fourteen

c)

Seven

d)

Sixteen

19.

Let C = {0000, 1100, 0011, 1111} be a code. Suppose Jose sends a message and Emilio received the binary word y = 1000. Which code word do you think did Jose send?

a)

The error cannot be corrected

b)

0011

c)

0000

d)

1111

e)

1100

20.

If a code can detect up to eight errors, what should be its smallest minimum distance?

a)

Nine

b)

Fourteen

c)

Nineteen

d)

Sixteen

21.

The following are odd parity codes, except...

a)

{000, 101, 011}

b)

{001, 101, 011}

c)

{001, 111, 100}

d)

{000, 111, 101}