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    Multiple Choice
    1-13 Answer is a.

    14-24 Answer is b.

    25-30 Answer is c.

    31-40 Answer is d.

    Answers
    1. What is meant by a bit?
    The smallest representation of data consisting of either a 1 or 0. A single binary digit.

    2. How many bits are there in a byte?


    8 bits.

    3. Convert the following 8-bit binary values into their denary (base 10) equivalent. You
    must show your working out.

    a. 00110111
    55

    b. 10101111
    175

    c. 11010110
    214
    4. Convert the following denary (base 10) values into their 8-bit binary equivalent. You
    must show your working out.

    a. 31
    00011111

    b. 104
    01101000

    c. 210
    11010010

    5.

    a. An overflow error can occur when adding two 8-bit binary values. What is meant
    by an overflow error?

    There is an extra carry/bit


    The result exceeds 8 bits
    The result is more than 255/11111111
    6.
    7.

    a. Why do people use hexadecimal values to represent numbers stored in


    computers?
    Hexadecimal values are shorter than binary. Hexadecimal values are easier to work
    with than binary. Hexadecimal values are easily converted. Hexadecimal values are
    less susceptible to errors.

    8.
    9. What is meant by the term character set?
    The agreed set of code/bits to represent the computers’ main characters. Characters available
    to a computer.

    10. What does ASCII stand for?


    American Standard Code for Information Interchange. 7-bit character system used to code the
    character set the computer uses. A system that uses code to represent characters, symbols
    and numbers.

    11. Why would Extended ASCII be used?


    To use an additional 128 symbols. To use other special characters found in different
    languages.

    12. What is meant by Unicode?


    Up to 32 bits (4 bytes) used to encode set characters.

    13. What is meant by a Pixel?

    Smallest element that makes up an image


    A picture/image element.

    14. How many colours can be represented in an image with 8 bits? You must show your
    working out.
    256.

    15. Why is metadata included in a file?


    A computer needs to know the size of the image in terms of height, width and colour depth in
    bits per pixel (bpp) …this allows the computer to recreate the image from binary.

    16. How does the resolution of an image affect the size of the file?
    The resolution of an image is the number of pixels per unit (pixels per inch). The more pixels
    per inch the larger the file size.

    17. How can sound be sampled and stored in digital form?

    Sound is continuously changing values (in analogue). Sound waves are sampled at set intervals. Set
    values are saved and replayed. The sample rate affects the quality of the sound/ a high sample rate (or
    sampling sound at shorter intervals) improves the quality of the sound.

    18.
    a. Compression is often used to reduce the size of files before sending them
    electronically. What is one advantage for compressing files in this way?
    Reduce download size. Reduce download time when transferring a file. Reduce
    storage requirement.

    b. What is meant by lossy compression?


    Removing data from a file (commonly images and sound) to reduce its size. Data is
    lost when file is uncompressed which means that the image cannot be restored to its
    original condition.

    c. What is meant by loseless compression?


    Compressing a file without losing any information. No bits are lost after the image has
    been restored. All data is restored after file has been uncompressed.

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