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Character Sets

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name

Class

Date

What does ASCII stand for?

Australian Standard Code for Information Interchange

Aberdonian Standard Code for Information Interchange

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

African Standard Code for Information Interchange

What is ASCII used for?

Storing text

Storing sounds

Storing images

Storing video

How many bits does ASCII use for each character?

What is a character?

A single key on the keyboard or a single number, letter or punctuation symbol

A person who works as a computer programmer

A 1 or a 0

The part that an actor plays

What does ASCII do?

Converts images into binary

Converts sound into binary

Converts text into binary

Converts the typed language into American English

Binary is:

a system using the digits 0 and 1 to represent a letter, digit, or other character in a computer or other electronic device.

the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet

ASCII is:

a numerical system that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.

the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet

ASCII is pronounced:

Ask-ee

A-skee

A-skews-me

Choose the best answer about character sets:

All characters in character sets are stored in binary.

Some characters in character sets are stored in binary.

Only binary characters in character sets are stored in binary.

10.

The following is true about character sets:

Each letter has a unique code

Lower and upper case letters share the same codes

ASCII is one of the latest character sets to be adopted

11.

Identify a true statement:

Standard ASCII only uses the first 128 positions in the table.

Standard ASCII only uses the first 255 positions in the table.

ASCII has more letters than Unicode

12.

The main purpose of character sets is:

To allow humans to express alphanumeric characters in a binary table

To run the Internet

To simplify computer programming

13.

How many bits was used to encode the original ASCII character set?

14.

The ASCII code is capable of representing non-European languages

TRUE

FALSE

15.

ASCII can represent more characters than Unicode

TRUE

FALSE

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Character Sets

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 13mins

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