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Binary - Assessment Test - 1- Year 8

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the word 'bit' mean in Computing? [Two options are correct]

a)

Very small piece

b)

Binary digit

c)

0 or 1

d)

A sequence of 0s and 1s

2.

Which of the following would you characterise as 'binary'? (Two answers are correct)

a)

A switch

b)

An oven knob

c)

A dice

d)

A coin

3.

Which of the following is a byte?

a)

8

b)

bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit

c)

01100101

d)

1

4.

How many different sequences of 3 binary digits can there be? For example: with 2 binary digits we can have 22 = 4 different sequences.

a)

3

b)

6

c)

8

d)

9

5.

What is the size or length of this sequence of binary digits: 101?

a)

2 bits

b)

3 bits

c)

5

d)

101

6.

4 bits can hold decimal numbers between:

a)

0 and 7

b)

0 and 15

c)

0 and 63

d)

0 and 31

7.

Here is a sequence of binary digits: 011000101110010100110100010001110101001110001010101 What could this sequence represent? What could it mean?

a)

A piece of text

b)

A number

c)

A set of instructions

d)

Musical notes

e)

All of the above

8.

Which of the following binary numbers is equivalent to decimal 4? For example: use table :

8 4 2 1

decimal number 2 in binary is= 0 0 1 0

a)

10

b)

0100

c)

1010

d)

1111

9.

Which of the following binary numbers is equivalent to decimal 9? (There are two correct answers)

a)

101

b)

1001

c)

1010

d)

001001

10.

Which of the following binary numbers is equivalent to decimal 27?

a)

11001

b)

10111

c)

11011

d)

11111

11.

Which of the following decimal numbers is equivalent to binary 110?

a)

2

b)

6

c)

30

d)

110

12.

Which of the following decimal numbers is equivalent to binary 11100?

a)

14

b)

28

c)

70

d)

320

13.

Which prefix would you use to describe a quantity that is in the billions?

a)

Kilo-

b)

Mega-

c)

Giga-

d)

Tera-

14.

What does the prefix 'mega-' stand for?

a)

Thousand

b)

Million

c)

Billion

d)

Trillion

15.

Select the sizes that is equivalent to 1 byte: (You can select more than one option.)

a)

1 bit

b)

4 bits

c)

8 bits

d)

2 nibles

16.

Can you name one well-known code scheme used in digital devices that represents every character as a sequence of 7 binary digits? For example: A is 1000001 in which coding scheme?

a)

Morse code

b)

Semaphore

c)

Unicode

d)

ASCII code