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Started on Saturday, 28 June 2025, 9:09 PM
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Time taken 9 mins 17 secs
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Question 1

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How many bits are used to represent a character in extended ASCII?

a. 8 
b. 32
c. 7
d. 16

The correct answer is: 8

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Question 2

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What is the primary challenge of transitioning from ASCII to Unicode?

a. Inability to encode control characters

b. Lack of support for English text
c. Loss of backward compatibility 
d. Increased complexity and storage needs

The correct answer is: Increased complexity and storage needs

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Question 3

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Why is ISCII considered a superset of ASCII?

a. It is incompatible with ASCII

b. It supports variable-length encoding 
c. It uses fewer bits than ASCII
d. It includes all ASCII characters in its lower range

The correct answer is: It includes all ASCII characters in its lower range

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Question 4

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How many bytes does UTF-32 use for every character?

a. Variable
b. 4 
c. 2
d. 1

The correct answer is: 4

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Question 5

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Which encoding scheme is least efficient for storing ASCII-only text?

a. UTF-32
b. ASCII 
c. UTF-8
d. UTF-16

The correct answer is: UTF-32

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Question 6

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of UTF-32?

a. It is not compatible with Unicode

b. It uses more memory than UTF-8 
c. It cannot encode ASCII characters
d. It is variable-length

The correct answer is: It uses more memory than UTF-8

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Question 7

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Which of the following is a valid Unicode code point for an emoji?

a. U+FFFF
b. U+007F
c. U+0000
d. U+1F600 

The correct answer is: U+1F600

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Question 8

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What is the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode code point U+00A9 (©)?

a. 0xC2A9 
b. 0xE0A9
c. 0xF0A9
d. 0x00A9

The correct answer is: 0xC2A9

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Question 9

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What is the ASCII value of the backspace (BS) character?

a. 8 
b. 10
c. 9
d. 13

The correct answer is: 8

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Question 10

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How many bits are used to represent a single character in ASCII?

a. 8
b. 6
c. 7 
d. 16

The correct answer is: 7

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