Explore topic-wise MCQs in Computer Science Engineering (CSE).

This section includes 97 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Computer Science Engineering (CSE) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

In a typical picture, most pixels will be

A. Very similar to their neighbors
B. Very different to their neighbors
C. Bright
D. Equal
Answer» B. Very different to their neighbors
2.

Makes the file smaller by deleting parts of the file permanently (forever)

A. Lossy Compression
B. Lossless Compression
Answer» B. Lossless Compression
3.

Which of these is an advantage for Lossy compression?

A. The file size becomes significantly (much) smaller
B. The file size does not become much smaller than 50%
Answer» B. The file size does not become much smaller than 50%
4.

Which of the following would not be suitable for Lossy Compression?

A. Images
B. Sounds
C. Videos
D. Text
Answer» E.
5.

What type of compression allows you to reconstruct the original data?

A. Lossless compression
B. Lossy compression
Answer» B. Lossy compression
6.

Lossy or lossless? This type of compression does not get rid of any data

A. Lossy
B. Lossless
C. Both
Answer» C. Both
7.

Lossy or lossless? Used for web images as it gives the smallest file size - this makes images easier to upload/download/share.

A. Lossy
B. Lossless
C. Both
Answer» B. Lossless
8.

What are the key reasons for compressing data?

A. Less space needed for storage
B. Less time to transmit
C. Reduced amount of processing power
D. A and b
Answer» E.
9.

Lossless compression...

A. Is used when not all the information is needed
B. Would be a sensible choice for a music download site
C. Can fully regenerate the original file
D. a and c
Answer» E.
10.

Lossy compression...

A. Permanently removes data from a file
B. Aims to remove redundant data
C. Would be a sensible choice for a music download site.
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
11.

Dictionary based compression...

A. Is a lossless compression format
B. Doesn't need to send the dictionary with the data
C. Is a lossless compression format
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
12.

Run-length encoding..

A. Is Lossless
B. Records the number of repeats of an individual element
C. Can be used for a wide variety of file types
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
13.

Hashing gives each item

A. A sequential address
B. A logarithmic address
C. No address
D. A unique address
Answer» E.
14.

When is Run Length Encoding used?

A. When we want to compress patterns of data
B. When we want to decompress patterns of data
C. When we want to encode running videos
D. Option.
Answer» B. When we want to decompress patterns of data
15.

Identify types of lossless compression

A. Run length encoding
B. Dictionary encoding
C. Transform Coding
D. a and b
Answer» E.
16.

What is the correct Run-length encoding for the data: cccmmmmmsssssdcccccc

A. 3c5m5s1d6c
B. C3m5s5d1c6
C. Cmsdc35516
D. Cccmmmmmsssssdcccccc
Answer» B. C3m5s5d1c6
17.

Which of the following are not in a compressed format?

A. JPEG
B. Bitmap
C. MPEG
D. MP3
Answer» C. MPEG
18.

Digitizing the image intensity amplitude is called

A. Sampling
B. Quantization
C. Framing
D. Both A And B
Answer» C. Framing
19.

Digital video is sequence of

A. Pixels
B. Matrix
C. Frames
D. Coordinates
Answer» D. Coordinates
20.

Compressed image can be recovered back by

A. Image Enhancement
B. Image Decompression
C. Image Contrast
D. Image Equalization
Answer» C. Image Contrast
21.

Compression is done for saving

A. Storage
B. Bandwidth
C. Money
D. Both A And B
Answer» E.
22.

Down sampling is to make a digital image file smaller by

A. Removing noise
B. Adding noise
C. Removing pixels
D. Adding pixels
Answer» D. Adding pixels
23.

The best visual compression quality is achieved using

A. Dolby
B. Wavelets
C. Fourier transform
D. DCT
Answer» C. Fourier transform
24.

LZW would only send the _____to the dictionary

A. Image
B. Index
C. File
Answer» C. File
25.

LZB achieves a better compression than

A. LZH
B. LZB
C. LZSS
Answer» D.
26.

The decompression in LZ78 Is __compared to the process of compression.

A. Slower
B. Faster
Answer» C.
27.

How can we make attributes have multiple values

A. <Myelement myattribute="value1 value2"/>
B. <Myelement myattribute="value1" myattribute="value2"/>
C. <Myelement myattribute="value1, value2"/>
D. Attributes cannot have multiple values
Answer» E.
28.

In arithmetic coding a ___identifier or tag is generated for the sequence to be encoded.

A. Unique
B. Different
Answer» B. Different
29.

The use of the cumulative distribution function to generate a binary code for _____has a rather interesting history.

A. A Sequence
B. A Bit
C. A Image
Answer» B. A Bit
30.

Once we have started decoding, all we have to do is ___the encoder algorithm.

A. Mimic
B. Long
C. Static
Answer» B. Long
31.

Advantage of arithmetic coding is that

A. It is easy to implement a system with multiple arithmetic codes
B. It is hard to implement a system with multiple arithmetic codes
C. It is easy to implement a system with single arithmetic codes
Answer» B. It is hard to implement a system with multiple arithmetic codes
32.

In file compression unix once the dictionary has filled up, the size of the dictionary is ____to 1024 entries.

A. Single
B. Doubled
Answer» C.
33.

GIF is another implementation of the ___ algorithm

A. LZW
B. LZSS
C. LZH
Answer» B. LZSS
34.

Without losing quality, JPEG-2000 can achieve compression ratios of

A. 2000:1
B. 20:1
C. 200:1
D. 2:1
Answer» D. 2:1
35.

GIF has become quite popular for encoding all kinds of images, both computergenerated and ___ images.

A. Distorted
B. Natural
Answer» C.
36.

PNG is based on

A. LZSS
B. LZH
C. LZ77
Answer» D.
37.

The PNG standard is one of the first standards to be collaboratively developed over the

A. Image
B. Internet
C. File
Answer» C. File
38.

The ITU-T recommendation V.42 bis is a compression standard devised for use over a

A. Telephone Network
B. Image Network
C. Text File Network
Answer» B. Image Network
39.

Models for certain telemetry data can also be obtained through ____of the underlying process.

A. Knowledge
B. Text
C. Data
Answer» B. Text
40.

Shannon Defined A Quantity Called

A. Self-Information
B. Information
Answer» B. Information
41.

Bwt algorithm requires that the entire sequence to be coded be available to the ____before the coding takes place

A. Decoder.
B. Encoder
Answer» C.
42.

Markov process called

A. Discrete time markov chain
B. Random time markov chain
Answer» B. Random time markov chain
43.

Probability Models Know As..

A. Knowledge model
B. Statistical model
C. Ignorance model
Answer» D.
44.

The ppm algorithms first attempt to find if the symbol to be encoded has a _____probability with respect to the maximum context length.

A. Zero
B. Nonzero
Answer» C.
45.

Composite source model, which can be viewed as a

A. Single Model To Describe The Source
B. Combination Or Composition Of Several Sources
Answer» C.
46.

The set of binary sequences is called a

A. Code
B. Unit
C. Digit
Answer» B. Unit
47.

The set of binary sequences is called a code, and the individual members of the set are called

A. Sequence Model
B. Unit Model
C. Codewords.
Answer» D.
48.

Unique decodability from the code; that is, any given sequence of codewords can be decoded in

A. One, And Two, Way.
B. One, And Only One, Way.
Answer» C.
49.

The ASCII code uses the same number of bits to represent each symbol. Such a code is called

A. Random Length Code.
B. Fixed-Length Code.
Answer» C.
50.

In Huffman coding, the actual output of the encoder is determined by a set of

A. Probabilities
B. Function
C. Codes
D. Model
Answer» B. Function