Topic11- ASCII & Unicode Quiz

What does ASCII stand for?

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• American System Code for Internet Interchange

• Advanced Standard Code for Information Interchange

• American Standard Code for International Interchange

How many characters can be represented using 7 bits in ASCII?

• 128 characters

• 256 characters

• 64 characters

• 32 characters

What is the purpose of the eighth bit in ASCII with parity check?

• Error checking

• Storing additional characters

• Increasing processing speed

• Reducing memory usage

How many characters can Extended ASCII represent?

• 256 characters

• 128 characters

• 512 characters

• 64 characters

What is the main advantage of Unicode over ASCII?

• Faster processing speed

• Larger amount of characters represented

• Uses fewer bits

• Reduced memory requirements

How many bits does Unicode use to represent characters?

• 7 bits

• 8 bits

• 16 bits

• 32 bits

What is the maximum number of characters ASCII can represent using 7 bits?

• 64 characters

• 128 characters

• 256 characters

• 512 characters

Which of the following is a disadvantage of Unicode compared to ASCII?

• Larger file size

• Fewer characters represented

• Incompatibility with ASCII

• Faster processing speed

What is the primary reason for developing Unicode?

• To reduce memory usage

• To include characters from most of the world's languages

• To increase processing speed

• To decrease file size

Which character encoding is primarily used for web pages and email?

• ASCII

• UTF-8

• ISO-8859-1

• UTF-16