Created 06/19/03; edited: 02/17/08, 02/27/11

QUIZ on Chapter 3

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1.   How many patterns can be formed with a single bit?

A.   1
B.   2
C.   4
D.   8

2.   How many patterns can be formed with TWO bits?

A.   1
B.   2
C.   4
D.   8

3.   What is 22 * 22?

A.   44
B.   24
C.   42
D.   82

4.   What is the name for the bit pattern 0000 0010 ?

A.   0x010
B.   0x0A
C.   0x02
D.   2x4

5.   What is the name for the bit pattern 1010 0110 ?

A.   0xA6
B.   0x6A
C.   0xB8
D.   0xC3

6.   What is the name for the bit pattern 1101 0111 ?

A.   0xD6
B.   0xE6
C.   0xA5
D.   0xD7

7.   What is the name for the bit pattern 1111 0001 ?

A.   0xA1
B.   0xF1
C.   0x4F
D.   0xD2

8.   Say that you read that a particular computer "uses hexadecimal". What is being described?

A.   the fundamental hardware of the processor chip.
B.   a convention used in written documentation of the computer.
C.   the type of arithmetic carried out by the computer.
D.   the type of signals used on the computer's bus.

9.   What is the name for the convention where bits are named in groups of three?

A.   Trinary
B.   Trinity
C.   Octal
D.   Trixadecimal

10.   How many bytes are in a kilobyte?

A.   8
B.   124
C.   1000
D.   1024
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