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ASCII & Unicode

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

ASCII is an encoding system for text. What does ASCII stand for?

a)

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

b)

All System Code In Internet

c)

American Simple Code for Interesting Information

d)

Alpha Super Code Input Information

2.

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

a)

7

b)

8

c)

16

d)

4

3.

The Extended ASCII system uses 8 bits per character instead of 7 bits. How many different characters can be represented in 8 bits?

a)

1024

b)

8

c)

128

d)

256

4.

If 01000001 (65) is the ASCII code for the letter 'A' what is the binary code for 'E'?

a)

01000011

b)

01000101

c)

01000110

d)

01000111

5.

Upper and lower case letters have different ASCII codes.

a)
True
b)
False
6.
What is the maximum number of values that can be represented in 7 bits?
a)
127
b)
256
c)
65,536
d)
128
7.

How is Unicode different from ASCII?

a)

Unicode has fewer characters

b)

Unicode can represent more characters

c)

Unicode isn't for letters

d)

Unicode doesn't have numbers

8.

Unicode can represent emojis

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What is the ASCII code for ... A?

a)

65

b)

56

c)

97

d)

79

10.

ASCII can represent more characters than Unicode?

a)
True
b)
False
11.

How are standard ASCII and Unicode related? (PICK 2)

a)

ASCII is a subset of Unicode

b)

The first 7 bits of Unicode are the same as standard ASCII

c)

Unicode is a subset of ASCII

d)

They aren't

12.
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
13.
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.
14.

Unicode 32 can represent:

a)

65,536 different characters

b)

255 characters

c)

127 characters

d)

2 to the power of 32 which is more than every language in the world