Quiz on Units of Information

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

• Byte

• Nat

• Trit

• Bit

How many bits are there in a byte?

• 6

• 10

• 4

• 8

What is a group of four bits called?

• Word

• Block

• Nibble

• Byte

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

• Shannon

• Hartley

• Nat

• Ban

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

• 10

• e

• 2

• 3

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

• 512 bytes

• 1024 bytes

• 4096 bytes

• 2048 bytes

Which prefix is used to denote 1024 bytes in binary?

• Kilo

• Mebi

• Giga

• Kibi

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

• 90 bytes

• 120 bytes

• 256 bytes

• 512 bytes

What is the size of a CD-ROM sector?

• 1024 bytes

• 2048 bytes

• 4096 bytes

• 512 bytes

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

• Nat

• Trit

• Dit

• Ban