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Practice - 12 Character Sets

The document contains a quiz on character sets, specifically focusing on ASCII, Extended ASCII, and Unicode. It includes multiple-choice questions regarding the number of bits required for character representation, the number of characters in each set, and the capabilities of each character set. Answers to the quiz questions are also provided at the end.

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Practice - 12 Character Sets

The document contains a quiz on character sets, specifically focusing on ASCII, Extended ASCII, and Unicode. It includes multiple-choice questions regarding the number of bits required for character representation, the number of characters in each set, and the capabilities of each character set. Answers to the quiz questions are also provided at the end.

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Teach Computer

Science

Character sets

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Quiz
1. How many bits are required to represent a character’s ASCII
code?
A. 4
B. 7
C. 8
D. 32

2. How many different characters are represented in ASCII


character set?
A. 128
B. 256
C. Several billions

3. How many bits are required to represent a character’s


Extended ASCII code?
A. 4
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9

4. Which of the following character sets allow encoding of


characters used in English language only?
A. ASCII
B. Extended ASCII
C. Unicode

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5. Which of the following character sets allow encoding of
characters used in English and European languages only?
A. ASCII
B. Extended ASCII
C. Unicode

6. What is the maximum number of bits that is used in


Unicode character coding to represent a character?
A. 8
B. 16
C. 32
D. 64

7. Which of the following statement is TRUE about Unicode?


A. It uses larger number of bits to represent a character.
B. It represents characters of languages all over the world.
C. Several code pages are used to represent Unicode.
D. All of the above

8. What happens to the ASCII codes of characters in Unicode


system?
A. ASCII codes are changed according to Unicode system
B. All ASCII codes remain the same
C. Some of the ASCII codes are changed while some
remain unchanged.

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9. Which of the following statement is FALSE about ASCII
character coding?
A. The character codes of upper case characters have a
smaller value when compared to lower case characters.
B. The ASCII code of uppercase characters starts at hex
value 41
C. The ASCII code of lowercase characters starts at hex
value 40

10. How many different characters are represented in


Extended ASCII character set?
A. 128
B. 256
C. Several billions of characters

11. How many different characters are represented in Unicode


character set?
A. 128
B. 256
C. Several billions of characters

12. Which of the following character sets allows character


encoding of Thai, Greek and Latin characters?
A. ASCII
B. Extended ASCII
C. Unicode

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Answers
Question
Answer
Number

1 B

2 A

3 C

4 A

5 B

6 C

7 D

8 B

9 C

10 B

11 C

12 C

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