Information Coding Scheme

Which is not an Information Coding Scheme?

• ASCII

• EBCIDIC

• UNICODE

• EBCDIC

Computer represents data using...

• binary

• decimal

• hexadecimal

• octal

Which is true about ASCII?

• uses 8 bits to represent a character

• uses 7 bits to represent a character

• uses 16 bits to represent a character

• uses 256 bits to represent a character

Which is true about Unicode?

• uses 16 bits to represent a character

• uses 8 bits to represent a character

• uses 7 bits to represent a character

• uses 256 bits to represent a character

Which coding scheme is best used in personal computers?

• EBCDIC

• UNICODE

• ASCII

• BINARY

Which coding scheme is best used in mainframes?

• EBCIDIC

• UNICODE

• ASCII

• EBCDIC

ASCII and EBCDIC is not large enough to accomodate characters from Asian and other languages.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Unicode can represent more than ___________ characters.

• 65536

• 35536

• 66536

• 76536

Which coding scheme is implemented in Operating System?

• ASCII

• EBCDIC

• UNICODE

ASCII uses more memory compared to UNICODE.

• TRUE

• FALSE