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1.

The excess-3 code of decimal 7 is represented by

A. 1100
B. 1001
C. 1011
D. 1010
Answer» E.
2.

The digits used in a binary number system are _____ and _____.

A. 9 and 0
B. 0 and 1
C. 1 and 2
D. 3 and 4
Answer» C. 1 and 2
3.

Resultant binary of the decimal problem 49 + 1 is

A. 00110010
B. 110011
C. 1010101
D. 111100
Answer» B. 110011
4.

What is the 9’s complement of (0.3267)10?

A. 47.479
B. 0.6352
C. 0.6732
D. 1.4563
Answer» D. 1.4563
5.

BCD code is

A. non-weighted
B. the same thing as binary numbers
C. a binary code
D. an alphanumeric code
Answer» D. an alphanumeric code
6.

Boolean algebra is named after________________, who used it to study human logical reasoning.

A. Anderson, Mary
B. Acharya Kanad
C. Dickson, Earle
D. George Boole
Answer» E.
7.

Data keys need not be a direct hardware address in

A. hard disk
B. memory
C. RAM
D. ROM
Answer» C. RAM
8.

In Excess-3 code each coded number is

A. four larger than in BCD code
B. three smaller than in BCD code
C. three larger than in BCD code
D. much larger than in BCD code
Answer» D. much larger than in BCD code
9.

The number of bits used to store a BCD digit is

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer» C. 6
10.

All of the following are 4-bit combinations of BCD code except

A. 1010
B. 1100
C. 1000
D. 1001
Answer» B. 1100
11.

How can you represent = in 8-bit EBCDIC representation?

A. 01111111
B. 01111110
C. 01011100
D. 01101011
Answer» C. 01011100
12.

Binary equivalent of A16 is

A. 1010
B. 1011
C. 1000
D. 1110
Answer» B. 1011
13.

In straight binary code, N-bits or N binary digits can represent ______________ different values.

A. 2^N
B. 2^(N+1)
C. 2^(N-1)
D. 2^N -1
Answer» B. 2^(N+1)
14.

2’s complement is used to represent signed integers, especially __________ integers.

A. Negative
B. Positive
C. Both a and b
D. None of the above
Answer» B. Positive
15.

Which one of the following is the type of complement for each base R system?

A. Diminished radix-complement representation [(R – 1)’s complement]
B. Radix- complement representation [R’s complement]
C. 1’s and 2’s complement representation
D. Both a and b
Answer» E.
16.

In ___________________, to encode a negative number, first the binary representation of its magnitude is taken, complement each bit and then add 1.

A. Signed integer representation
B. 1’s complement representation
C. 2’s complement representation
D. Radix complement representation
Answer» D. Radix complement representation
17.

Which of the following condition is true for determining overflow condition in 2’s complement?

A. When adding two positive numbers gives a negative result or when two negatives give a positive result.
B. If sign bit (MSB) of result and sign bit of two operands are of different signs.
C. The ‘1’ in the MSB position indicates a negative number after adding two positive numbers.
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
18.

Floating-point numbers are those numbers, which include ______________.

A. Decimals
B. Fractional parts
C. Integer values
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
19.

For subtraction of binary number, subtract the _________________.

A. Minuend from the subtrahend digit
B. Subtrahend digit from the minuend
C. MSB from the LSB
D. None of the above
Answer» C. MSB from the LSB
20.

What does the leftmost bit represents, according to the IEEE standards?

A. Sign of the number
B. Position of the number
C. Weight of the number
D. None of the above
Answer» B. Position of the number
21.

The binary representation of 0.875 is 0 01111110 11000000000000000000000 in _______________presentation.

A. 128- bit
B. Excess 127
C. 32- bit
D. 16-bit
Answer» D. 16-bit
22.

1000001 represents as (65)10 in which code?

A. ASCII code
B. Straight binary code
C. Gray code
D. BCD code
Answer» C. Gray code
23.

How -5 is represented in hex format in 2’s complement in 8-bits?

A. (FB)16
B. (7F)16
C. (FF)16
D. (FA)16
Answer» B. (7F)16
24.

In N-bits, you can represent the signed integers ranging from ___________.

A. 2 ^(N-1) to 2^ (N+1)
B. -2^(N-1) to 2^(N-1) -1
C. 2 ^(N+1) to 2^(N-1) +1
D. 2^ (N) to 2^ (N+1)
Answer» C. 2 ^(N+1) to 2^(N-1) +1
25.

EXOR is the __________ of the binary number.

A. MSB to the next bit
B. LSB to the next bit
C. MSB of the previous bit
D. LSB of the previous bit
Answer» B. LSB to the next bit
26.

ASCII code is required for representing more than ________ characters.

A. 16
B. 8
C. 64
D. 32
Answer» D. 32
27.

Which of the following code is also known as reflected code?

A. Excess-3 code
B. Gray code
C. Straight binary code
D. Error code
Answer» C. Straight binary code
28.

Why the 8-bit (MSB) is added in EBCDIC?

A. For carriage return
B. For making the total number of 1’s odd
C. For line feed
D. For parity
Answer» E.
29.

What is the 8-bit EBCDIC representation of alphabet M?

A. 1100100
B. 11001001
C. 11010100
D. 010001
Answer» D. 010001
30.

Which of the following is not correct regarding EBCDIC?

A. It is used to represent more than 64 characters.
B. It is a 7-bit code.
C. A maximum of 128 different characters can be represented by this code.
D. None of the above
Answer» C. A maximum of 128 different characters can be represented by this code.
31.

How can you represent (08)10 in BCD?

A. 0000 1000
B. 0010 0011
C. 1001 0010 0001
D. 1001 0010
Answer» B. 0010 0011
32.

The MSB of _____________ is same as the MSB of the corresponding Gray code.

A. Alphanumeric code
B. Excess-3 code
C. Binary code
D. Gray code
Answer» D. Gray code
33.

(FA)16 is the ________ one’s complement representation of -5.

A. 4-bit
B. 8-bit
C. 16-bit
D. 2-bit
Answer» C. 16-bit
34.

Which of the following is a self complementing code?

A. 8421 code
B. 5211
C. Gray code
D. Binary code
Answer» B. 5211
35.

Which one is the possible technique for representing signed integers?

A. Signed Magnitude Representation
B. Diminished Radix-Complement Representation
C. Radix-Complement Representation
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
36.

What is used to represent the signed magnitude?

A. MSB
B. LSB
C. Both of the above
D. None of the above
Answer» B. LSB
37.

What are the two ways of representing the 0 with signed magnitude representation?

A. -0 and -0
B. +0 and +0
C. -0 and +0
D. None of the above
Answer» D. None of the above
38.

The conversation speed of an analog to digital converter is maximum with the following technique.

A. Dual slope AD converter.
B. Serial comparator AD converter.
C. Successive approximation AD converter.
D. Parallel comparator AD converter.
Answer» E.
39.

To store data bytes in a file, they have to be serialized in a

A. file format
B. data format
C. binary format
D. numeric format
Answer» B. data format
40.

Data can be organized in many different types of data structures, including

A. arrays
B. graphs
C. objects
D. all of these
Answer» E.
41.

Digital data is represented using

A. binary system
B. alphabetic system
C. processing system
D. numeric system
Answer» B. alphabetic system
42.

To convert a whole decimal number into a hexadecimal equivalent, one should divide the decimal value by

A. 2
B. 8
C. 10
D. 16
Answer» B. 8
43.

Binary files are sometimes referred as

A. data
B. information
C. instruction
D. command
Answer» B. information
44.

Convert the binary number 1011010 to hexadecimal

A. 5C
B. 5A
C. 5F
D. 5B
Answer» C. 5F
45.

Hexadecimal number system is used as a shorthand language to represent

A. decimal numbers
B. binary numbers
C. octal numbers
D. quinary numbers
Answer» B. binary numbers
46.

Numbering system which uses numbers and letters as symbols is termed as

A. decimal
B. binary
C. octal
D. hexadecimal
Answer» E.
47.

If the decimal point is placed to the right of the first significant digit, then the number is called as ________.

A. Orthogonal
B. Normalized
C. Determinate
D. None of the above
Answer» C. Determinate
48.

The sign followed by the string of digits is called as ______.

A. Significant
B. Determinant
C. Mantissa
D. Exponent
Answer» D. Exponent
49.

The numbers written to the power of 10 in the representation of decimal numbers are called as _____.

A. Height factors
B. Size factors
C. Scale factors
D. None of the above
Answer» D. None of the above
50.

The 32 bit representation of the decimal number is called as ____.

A. Double-precision
B. Single-precision
C. Extended format
D. None of the above
Answer» C. Extended format