SS_Year_10_ASCII

What does a computer use to represent characters?

• Symbols

• Alphabets

• Binary numbers

• Decimal numbers

What is ASCII a subset of?

• Binary

• Unicode

• Decimal

• Hexadecimal

How many bits does ASCII use?

• 16 bits

• 64 bits

• 8 bits

• 32 bits

How many characters can ASCII store?

• 1024

• 256

• 128

• 512

What does ASCII stand for?

• American Symbol Code for International Interchange

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• American Symbol Code for Information Interchange

• American Standard Code for International Interchange

What can Unicode store that ASCII cannot?

• English characters

• Numbers

• Characters from different languages and emojis

• Basic symbols

What is required for a document encoded in Unicode to be opened on a different computer system?

• Decimal conversion

• ASCII compatibility

• Binary conversion

• Unicode

What is the maximum number of characters available in ASCII?

• 65,536

• 256

• 128

• 1024

Why are character sets logically ordered?

• To increase processing speed

• To make them easier to memorize

• To reduce memory usage

• To work out subsequent values

What does the OCR exam reference language use 'ASC' for?

• To convert a character into its ASCII integer value

• To convert a number into its binary equivalent

• To convert a binary number into a character

• To convert a character into its Unicode value