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Data Representation

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

ASCII stands for...

a)

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

b)

All Standard Complex for Information Interface

c)

American System for Coding Internal Information

d)

Alphabet Standard for Computer Internet Items

2.

ASCII worked great for ​ (a)   , but it was bad for ​ (b)   .

Choose from the below words
other languages
English
hexadecimal numbers
emojis
processing
3.

In the U.S., it was common to use the extra ASCII characters for symbols like _________ and math symbols.

a)

accented letters

b)

emojis

c)

calligraphy

d)

Cyrillic characters

4.

Using the extra ASCII characters to encode other languages' characters worked well until it became more common to ​ (a)   between computers internationally.

Choose from the below words
transfer files
edit data
send emails
chat
5.

Which one came first: ASCII or Unicode?

a)

ASCII

b)

Unicode

6.

What group created Unicode?

a)

Unicode Consortium

b)

Unicode Company

c)

Unicode Coalition

d)

Unified Collective

7.

What is the name of the pictures that were assigned to extra Unicode values?

a)

emoji

b)

emoticon

c)

byte

d)

pictograms

8.

Since a byte has eight bits and ASCII uses only seven, there was space to add new characters. Codes​ (a)   through​ (b)   were adapted to meet the needs of other languages.

Choose from the below words
128
255
0
125
500
9.

Unicode has enough space for every character from ____________.

a)

the English alphabet

b)

most European languages

c)

every human language

d)

every Latin-based language

10.

Web pages often use what kind of Unicode encoding?

a)

UTF-8

b)

UTF-16

c)

UTF-32

d)

UTF-64