Data Representation Methods in the Computer

System
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MCQ
1. The smallest unit of storage is referred as a GIT 2005
1)Mega Byte 2)Kilo Byte 3)Byte 4)Bit

2. ASCII Stands for GIT 2005

1)American Standard Code for Information Interchange
2)American Standard Code for International Information
3)American Statistical Code for International Information
4)American Standard Code for Interchange Information

3. The base of the hexadecimal number system is GIT 2006

1)6 2)8 3)10 4)16

4. Which of the following can be used as a coding scheme to represent characters?

1)EBCDIC 2)IEEE 3)ANSI 4)TURBO

5. How many bytes are there in a kilobyte? OL 2007

(1) 8 (2) 1000 (3) 1024 (4) 1048

6. Which of the following statements are true? OL 2007

A - A bit is the smallest unit of information that a computer can process.
B - A bytes is the smallest unit of information that a computer can process.
C - A bit contains 8 bytes.
D - A bytes contains 8 bit
(1) A and C (2) A and D (3) B and C (4) B and D

7. The decimal equivalent 10102 is OL 2007

1)5 2)6 3)10 4)12

8. The binary equivalent of decimal 15 is OL 2007

(1) 1001 (2) 1100 (3) 1111 (4) 10101

9. Which of the following has the least value? OL 2007 (I only changed one answer below)
1)4510 2)110002 3)378 4)1A16

10. In a Personal Computer (PC), an alphabetic, a numeric or a special character is represented by a

…………. OL 2008
(1) bit (2) nibble (3) byte (4) kilobyte

11. The binary equivalent of the octal number 36₈ is OL 2008

1)110011₂ 2)101110₂ 3)11110₂ 4)11111111₂

12. A megabyte contains: OL 2008

1)2⁶ Kilobytes 2)2²⁰ bytes 3)10⁶ Bytes 4)2²⁰ bits

13. The decimal equivalent of 111000₂ ……….. OL 2008

1) 7 2)38 3)56 4)70

14. The binary equivalent of the decimal number 33 is OL 2008

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14. The binary equivalent of the decimal number 33 is OL 2008
1) 1111₂ 2)011011₂ 3)100010₂ 4)100001₂

15. The value of A9₁₆ is equivalent to …….. OL 2008

1) 169₁₀ 2)10011010₂ 3)1211₈ 4)Both (1) and (3)

16. If P= and Q= then P+Q is ………. OL 2008

1)1111₂ 2)E₁₆ 3)F₁₆ 4)Both (1) and (3)

17. Consider the following statements regarding storage media. OL 2008

(A) A typical floppy disk has less storage capacity than a compact disk
(B) A modern hard disk has more storage capacity than a compact disk
(C) A digital versatile disk has more storage capacity than a modern hard disk
Which one of the following is true?
(1) (A) only (2) (B) only (3) (A) and (B) only (4) (C) only

18. The binary equivalent of 67 is? GIT 2008

1)1100001 2)1000011 3)1010001 4)1000101

19. The hexadecimal equivalent of the binary number 11011101010? GIT 2008
1)6EA 2)DD2 3)3352 4)6722

20. What is the base of octal system? GIT 2008

1)6 2)8 3)10 4)16

21. The sum of two binary numbers is 1010 and 11 is? GIT 2008
1)1110 2)1011 3)1010 4)1101

22. The number of bits used in the UNICODE coding scheme is ? GIT 2008
1)7 2)8 3)9 4)16

23. Which of the following storage media usually has the largest storage capacity? GIT 2008
1)DVD 2)CD 3)Floppy Disk 4)Hard disk

24. The minimum number of bits required to represent the Hexa-decimal number ACE ₁₆ is OL 2009
1)three 2)nine 3)eleven 4)twelve

25. What is the decimal equivalent of ? OL 2009

1)27 2)41 3)43 4)51

26. 2 megabytes contain OL 2009

1) 2⁷ Bytes 2)2²¹ bytes 3)2x10⁶ bytes 4)2x10²⁰ bytes

27. A student borrows Rs 50 from his friend and paid it back completely in tow instalments A and B.
Which of the following could be the equivalent of the instalments? OL 2009
1) A=100010₂ and B=1100₂ 2)A=100111₂ and B=1010₂ 3)A=100011₂ and B=1111₂ 4)A=100001₂
and B=1110₂

28. The ASCII code of the character "A" is 65. Which one of the following represents the character "A" in
binary? OL 2009
1) 111111₂ 2)110101₂ 3)1000010₂ 4)1000001₂

29. Which one of the following values is not equivalent to 1AF₁₆? OL 2009
1) 431₁₀ 2)110101111₂ 3)657₈ 4)567₈

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30. If P=1010₂ and Q=1111₂ then P+Q = OL 2009
1) 11001₂ 2)1A₁₆ 3)AF₁₆ 4)10101₂

31. The binary equivalent of the octal number 73 is? GIT 2009
1)100101 2)111011 3)1001001 4)100111

32. The hexadecimal equivalent of the binary number 11010101110 is? GIT 2009
1)6532 2)D56 3)3256 4)6AE

33. The base of the decimal number system is? GIT 2009
1)2 2)8 3)10 4)16

34. The sum of two binary numbers 1001 and 101 is GIT 2009
1)1110 2)1011 3)1010 4)1100

35. The number of bits used to represent a decimal digit in Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) coding scheme
is GIT 2009
1)2 3)4 3)6 4)8

36. Which of the following correctly arranges the access speed of the following in descending order?
GIT 2009
1)Cache Memory, RAM, DVD 2)Cache Memory, DVD, RAM
3)DVD, Cache Memory, RAM 4)RAM, Cache Memory, DVD

37. 2GB of memory is equivalent to OL 2010

1) 2048 KB 2)2¹¹ MB 3)2¹⁰ MB 4)1024 MB

38. The octal equivalent of binary 11001 is? OL 2010

1)21 2)31 3)37 4)41

39. Which of the following is the largest? OL 2010

1) 1001100₂ 2)1001010₂ 3)1010101₂ 4)1100000₂

40. If the character 'C' represented as 1000011₂ in the ASCII code, what is the equivalent ASCII code for
the character 'A'?
1)1000001₂ 2)1000010₂ 3)1010101₂ 4)1100000₂

41. A teacher enters the number of students in the class as 35 in the ASCII code, what is the equivalent
ASCII code for t the character 'A''?
1)100010₂ 2)100110₂ 3)100111₂ 4)100011₂

42. The decimal equivalent of the decimal number 137 is? GIT 2010
1) 71 2)77 3)79 4)83

43. The binary equivalent of the decimal number 137 is? GIT 2010
1)10001011 2)1001001 3)10001001 4)1101001

44. Which of the following pairs of binary represents an Odd value and an Even value when converted
into a decimal form? GIT 2010
1) 0101, 0011 2)0010, 1000 3)0111, 0001 4)0111, 0110

45. 1GB approximately equivalent to? GIT 2010

1)10KB 2)10²KB 3)10³KB 4)10³MB

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46. Age of father is equal to the sum of the ages of his daughter and his son. The ages of daughter and
his son in binary form are 11110 and 11011 years respectively. What is the age of the father in
decimal form? GIT 2010
1) 55 2)57 3)59 4)62

47. What is the equivalent value for decimal value 125? OL 2011
1) 01011101₂ 2) 01111101₂ 3)174₈ 4)7B₁₆

48. What value does the symbol 'C' represents in the hexadecimal number system? OL 2011
1)1011₂ 2)1101₂ 3)14₈ 4)13₁₀

49. Two computers, A and B have memory capacities of 1GB and 1024MB respectively. What is the
correct statement regarding their memory capacities? OL 2011
1)Computer A has the higher memory capacity than Computer B.
2)Computer B has the higher memory capacity than Computer A.
3)Both have equal memory capacities.
4)Memory capacities off the two computers cannot be compared as different units of measurement
are used.

50. Saman has an electronic presentation of size 10,256 bits. What is the minimum capacity of the
portable flash derive that can be used for storing this file? OL 2011
1)256 Bytes 2)1 KB 3)1 MB 4)1 GB

51. Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) uses four bits to represent each digit in the decimal number system.
Which of the following is a valid bit pattern in BCD? OL 2011
1) 0011 2)1011 3)1100 4)1101

52. If 1000001₂ represents A in ASCII, which of the represented by 1000111₂? OL 2011

1)D 2)E 3)F 4)G

53. Parakrama receives Rs 40/= from his father and Rs 30/= from his mother to purchase a book. The
binary equivalent of the total amount is? GIT 2011
1)1000011 2)10000100 3)1000101 4)1000110

54. The main memory of the computer stores the year 2011 in binary form as? GIT 2011
1)11110011001 2)11110011011 3)11111011011 4)11111111011

55. A flash memory device has a capacity of 4GB. Which of the following represents the capacity of the
flash memory device in MB? GIT 2011
1)¼x10³ MB 2)10³ MB 3)4x10³ MB 5)4x10⁶MB

56. Which of the following shows the storage devices arranged according to their access speeds from
the slowest to the fastest? OL 2012
1)Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, Main Memory 2)Hard Disk ,Floppy Disk, Main Memory
3)Hard Disk, Main Memory, Floppy Disk 4)Main Memory, Hard Disk, Floppy Disk

57. The binary equivalent of the number 3A₁₆ is ……. OL 2012

1) 111000 2)111001 3)111010 4)111011

58. The decimal equivalent of the number 1010101₂ is OL 2012

1) 21 2)58 3)81 4)85

59. Consider the number ‘11ₓ' where 'x' is the base of the number system. Which of the following
number system(s) can the number belongs to ? OL 2012

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 number system(s) can the number belongs to ? OL 2012
1)Binary only 2)Hexadecimal only 3)Octal Only 4)Either binary, Hexadecimal or Octal

60. Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) uses four bits to represent each digit in the decimal number system.
What is the bit pattern used to encode the decimal number 28 in the BCD code? OL 2012
1) 00011100 2)00101000 3)10000010 4)11100000

61. If ’1000111₂’ represents 'G' in ASCII, what character does ASCII '10000102' represent? OL 2012
1) A 2)B 3)C 4)D

62. The decimal equivalent to Binary 10101101 is? GIT 2012

1) 170 2) 173 3)177 4)191

63. The price of a pineapple is Rs.160/- and the price of a mango is Rs 40/-. The total price of pineapple
and mango in Binary form is GIT 2012
1)10001000 2)11001000 3)11011000 4)11011010

64. A computer has a memory (RAM) capacity of 4GB. Which of the following is equivalent to the RAM
capacity of the computer? OL 2013
1) 4096 Bytes 2)4096 KB 3)4096 MB 4)4096TB

65. Which of the following is equivalent to 127₁₀? OL 2013

1) 011111101₂ 2)11111110₂ 3)177₈ 4)FF₁₆

66. The binary equivalent of A9₁₆ is OL 2013

1) 10100100₂ 2)10101001₂ 3)10101100₂ 4)11101001₂

67. If the character 'a' is represented in ASCII as 1100001 then the character 'e' would be represented
as: OL 2013
1) 1100001 2)1100011 3)1100100 4)1100101

68. What is the binary equivalent of the decimal number 57? GIT 2013
1) 101101 2)110001 3) 111011 4)111001

69. Which of the following is equivalent to the decimal value 131₁₀? OL 2014
1)10110011₂ 2)10000011₂ 3)47₁₆ 4)76₈

70. What is the decimal equivalent of binary 101011₂? OL 2014

1)27 2)35 3)43 4)75

71. Which of the following has the least value? OL 2014

1)11001001₂ 2)145₁₀ 3)77₈ 4)49₁₆

72. Which of the following has the highest file size? OL 2014
1) .doc file of 1 Mega Byte 2).gif file of 912 Kilo Bytes
3) .txt file of 700 Bytes 4).jpg file of 1024 Bytes

73. If the character 'E' represented as 1000101 in ASCII encoding scheme, what is the ASCII code for the
character 'B'? OL 2014
1)1000001 2)1000010 2)1000011 4)1100101

74. Which of the following octal numbers is equivalent to decimal 79? OL 2015
1) 117₈ 2)1017₈ 3)711₈ 4)7110₈

75. Which of the following formats are used in computers to store data? OL 2015

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75. Which of the following formats are used in computers to store data? OL 2015
1)Binary 2)Decimal 3)Hexa-decimal 4)Octal

76. Which of the following decimal numbers is equivalent to binary numbers 110111₂ ? OL 2015
1) 55 2)63 3)110 4)118

77. Which of the following represents the ascending order of the four numbers 10001111₂, 170₈,
46687₁₀, 2F₁₆ ? OL 2015
1) 170₈, 10001111₂, 2F₁₆, 46687₁₀ 2)10001111₂, 46687₁₀, 170₈, 2F₁₆
3) 2F₁₆, 170₈, 10001111₂, 46687₁₀ 4)46687₁₀, 10001111₂, 170₈, 2F₁₆

78. Which of the file/files given in Table 1 could be stored in a USB storage device having a total
capacity of 4GB so that a least amount of unused space is left on the device? OL 2015
Table 1
File Name Size
A.doc 300MB
B.jpg 740MB
C.mp4 3GB
1)A. doc and B.jpg only 2)B.jpg and C.mp4 only 3)C.mp4 only 4)All of them

79. Which of the following sentence(s) is/are true? GIT 2015

A - The Hard disk has larger capacity than main memory.
B - The data in main memory are lost when the power is turned off while the data in the hard disk
are not.
C - The data in main memory are stored in electronic circuits while the data in the hard disk are
stored on magnetic media.
1)A only 2)B only 3)C only 4)All A, B and C

80. Table lists four files and their sizes. GIT 2015
Which of the files in the table could be stored in a flash memory drive having a total capacity of
4GB, if 3GB of the flash memory is already used?
File Size (MB)
A 224
B 770
C 815
D 1025
1)A and B only 2)A and C only 3)B and C only 4)C and D only

81. Which of the following decimal number is equivalent to the binary number 100110? GIT 2015
1)27 2)30 3)38 4)43

82. Which of the following binary numbers is equivalent to the decimal number 73? GIT 2015
1)1000101 2)1001001 3)1010001 4)1100001

83. Which of the following is approximately equivalent to one Terabyte (TB)? OL 2016
1) 1x10⁶MB 2)1x10⁶ GB 3) 1x10⁶KB 4)1x10⁹Bytes

84. What is the decimal equivalent to octal 64? OL 2016

1) 48 2)52 3)62 4)68

85. Which of the following show data transfer speeds of secondary storage devices arranged in an

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85. Which of the following show data transfer speeds of secondary storage devices arranged in an
ascending order? OL 2016
1)Solid state hard drive, Magnetic Hard drive, floppy disk drive, DVD drive
2)floppy disk drive, Magnetic hard drive, DVD drive, Solid state hard drive
3)floppy disk drive, DVD drive, Magnetic hard drive, Solid state hard drive
4)Solid state hard drive, Magnetic hard drive, DVD drive, floppy disk drive

86. In the ASCII code, Character 'Q' is represented as . What is the option that represents the word 'PUT'
in binary form? OL 2016
1) 1010000₂, 1010101₂, 1010100₂ 2) 1010001₂, 1010101₂, 1010100₂
3) 1010000₂, 1010011₂, 1010111₂ 4) 1010101₂, 1010100₂, 1010011₂

87. Consider the following four numbers presented in different number systems: OL 2016
11110011₂, F3₁₆, 363₈, 243₁₀
Which of the following statements is true regarding the above four numbers?
1) F3₁₆ is larger than other three numbers
2) 363₈ is smaller than other three numbers
3) Four numbers are equal to each other
4) Four numbers are not equal to each other

88. Which of the following binary number is equivalent to the decimal number 35? GIT 2016
1)113 2)139 3)213 4)231

89. Which of the following decimal numbers is equivalent to the binary number 10001011? GIT 2016
1)113 2)139 3)213 4)231

90. The descending order of the three binary numbers 1101101, 1101001, 1110010 is GIT 2016
1) 1110010, 1101101, 1101001 2) 1101101, 1101001, 1110010
3) 1110010, 1101001, 1101101 4) 1101001, 1101101, 1110010

91. In a certain coding system alphabetical characters A to Z are coded in the consecutive binary
numbers. A is coded as 1000000. What is the equivalent binary for character C? GIT 2016
1) 1000001 2)1000010 3)1000011 4)1000101

92. Which of the following decimal numbers is equivalent to the binary number 01011₂? OL 2017
1)11 2)35 3)15 4)10

93. Which of the following octal numbers is equivalent to the binary number 111110110010₂? OL
2017
1)7552₈ 2)2667₈ 3)2557₈ 4)7662₈

94. The hexadecimal equivalent of 11101011000111010₂ is? OL 2017

1)DD63A₁₆ 2)1D63A₁₆ 3)1D33A₁₆ 4)1D631₁₆

95. Consider the following statements: OL 2017

A - 2B₁₆ is equivalent to 53₈
B - 43₁₀ is equivalent to 101011₂
C - 101011₂ is equivalent to 53₈
Which of the above statements are true?
1) A and B only 2)A and C only 3)B and C only 4)All A, B and C

96. Consider the following statements OL 2017

A - Register memory in a computer has a smaller capacity than that of a hard disk.
B - Data access speed of register memory is slower than the speed of a hard disk

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 B - Data access speed of register memory is slower than the speed of a hard disk
C - Per bit cost to store data in register memory is higher than per bit cost to store data in a hard
disk
Which of the above statements are true?
1)A and B only 2)A and C only 3)B and C only 4)All A, B and C

97. In which form is data and instructions stored in a computer? OL 2018

1)binary 2)decimal 3)hexadecimal 4)octal

98. Which of the following is the octal equivalent of decimal 156₁₀? OL 2018
1)121₈ 2)234₈ 3)574₈ 4)770₈

99. Which of the following is the binary equivalent of hexadecimal 2B₁₆? OL 2018
1)00101011₂ 2)01001001₂ 3)10010100₂ 4)10110011₂

100. Which of the following lists 10011001₂, 113₈, 160₁₀, 1A₁₆ in the ascending order? OL 2018
1)10011001₂, 113₈, 160₁₀, 1A₁₆ 2)160₁₀, 1A₁₆, 10011001₂, 113₈
3)160₁₀, 1A₁₆. 113₈, 10011001₂ 4)1A₁₆, 113₈, 10011001₂, 160₁₀

101. In which of the following number systems, is the number '800' a valid number? OL 2018
1)decimal only 2)decimal and hexadecimal only
2)decimal and octal only 4)octal only

102. Which of the following statements are true? OL 2019

A - Binary form is used to store data and instructions in computers
B - 945 is a valid number both in octal and hexadecimal number systems
C - 412₈ is equivalent to 100001010₂
1)A only 2)B only 3)A and C only 4)All A, B and C

103. Which of the following shows the given storage components is descending order of access speed?
OL 2019
1)cache memory, main memory, register, hard disk
2)hard disk, cache memory, register, main memory
3)register, cache memory, main memory, hard disk
4)register, main memory, hard disk, cache memory

104. If character 'E' is represented in the ASCII table as 69₁₀, what is the binary representation of the
character 'G' in the ASCII table? OL 2019
1)1000110 2)1000111 3)1001000 4)1001001

105. Which of the following represents the result of the binary arithmetic operation 11001100 -
01010101? AL 2019
1)00110011 2)01100110 3)01110111 4)10011001 5)10101010

106. Which of the following represents the units of measurements of data in computer system in the
ascending order of their size? OL 2020
1)Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Terabyte 2)Byte, Bit, Kilobyte, Terabyte
3)Megabyte, Kilobyte, bit, Byte 4)Terabyte, Gigabyte, Megabyte, Kilobyte

107. Which of the following shows the storage devices of a desktop computer in descending order of
storage capacity? OL 2020
1)Register, Cache memory, Hard disk 2)Hard disk, RAM, Register
3)RAM, Register, Cache memory 4)RAM, Cache memory, Hard disk

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108. Consider the character representation in Table 1 and Table 2 given below AL 2020

In which of the character encoding system given below, the above characters in Table 1
and Table 2 are represented?
1)Both Tables 1 and 2 : in ASCII
2)Both Tables 1 and 2 : in UNICODE
3)Table1: in ASCII, Table 2: in UNICODE
4)Table 1: in EBCDIC, Table 2: in ASCII
5)Table 1:in UNICODE, Table 2: in ASCII

Compulsory Questions
109. What is the minimum number of keys required to represent the English alphabet (A to Z, a to z)
digits (0 to 9) and the ten special characters !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, * ( ) in a computer. OL 2009
110. Convert the binary number 11001110 into hexadecimal equivalent OL 2010
111. Covert the number of bytes in 1KB into octal equivalent OL 2010
112. Convert encodings schemes are used to represent symbols within computers. The number of
symbols represented in a computer depends on the number of bits used for the encoding scheme.
How many different symbols could be represented using eight (8) bits? Show your computation.
OL 2011
113. Convert Hexadecimal number C9 in to binary. Show your computations. OL 2011
114. Convert the binary number 10101001 into hexadecimal. Show your computations. OL 2012
115. Name a coding system used to represent characters (e.g. @, 2, A, …..) in computers OL 2012
116. Convert the binary number 10101010 into decimal - OL 2013
117. Write down the main purpose of an encoding scheme such as ASCII - OL 2013
118. Convert the hexadecimal number A7B₁₆ into its equivalent binary number. Show your
computations. OL 2014
119. Encoding schemes are used to represent characters and symbols with computers. List two
different encoding schemes. OL 2014
120. Convert the binary 11010101₂ to the equivalent octal number. Show your steps. OL 2015
121. In the ASCII code, the letter A is represented as decimal 65. Determine the binary representation
of the letter D. OL 2015
122. Covert the Hexadecimal number E9 to the equivalent octal number. Show the relevant steps. OL
2016
123. a)Covert the binary number 110111001100₂ to octal. Show stepsin your calculation OL 2017
b)Convert the hexadecimal number 752₂ to binary. Show setps in your calculation.
124.

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