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Quiz on Units of Information

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the most commonly used unit of data storage capacity?

a)

Byte

b)

Nat

c)

Trit

d)

Bit

2.

How many bits are there in a byte?

a)

6

b)

10

c)

4

d)

8

3.

What is a group of four bits called?

a)

Word

b)

Block

c)

Nibble

d)

Byte

4.

Which unit is used to measure the information content of one bit?

a)

Shannon

b)

Hartley

c)

Nat

d)

Ban

5.

What is the base of natural logarithms used in the unit 'nat'?

a)

10

b)

e

c)

2

d)

3

6.

What is the typical size of a memory page in x86 architecture?

a)

512 bytes

b)

1024 bytes

c)

4096 bytes

d)

2048 bytes

7.

Which prefix is used to denote 1024 bytes in binary?

a)

Kilo

b)

Mebi

c)

Giga

d)

Kibi

8.

What is the size of a typical line of text from a book in bytes?

a)

90 bytes

b)

120 bytes

c)

256 bytes

d)

512 bytes

9.

What is the size of a CD-ROM sector?

a)

1024 bytes

b)

2048 bytes

c)

4096 bytes

d)

512 bytes

10.

Which unit is rarely used to measure storage capacity but often used in information theory?

a)

Nat

b)

Trit

c)

Dit

d)

Ban

11.

Match-up the following

a)

Thousand

1.

Kilobyte (KB)

b)

Million

2.

Megabyte (MB)

c)

Billion

3.

Gigabyte (GB)

d)

Trillion

4.

Terabyte (TB)

12.

One thousand (1,000) bytes.

a)

Megabyte (MB)

b)

Kilobyte (KB)

c)

Gigabyte (GB)

d)

Terabyte (TB)

13.
The smallest unit of measurement for data
a)
Bit
b)
Byte
c)
Nibble
d)
Kibble
14.

One million (1,000,000) bytes.

a)

Kilobyte (KB)

b)

Gigabyte (GB)

c)

Megabyte (MB)

d)

Terabyte (TB)