Lesson 4.5.3.1

4.5.3.1 Bits and bytes Quiz: AQA Computer Science, Unit 5

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The 20 questions

  1. How many bits are in a byte?

    • 10
    • 16
    • 4
    • 8
  2. What is the fundamental unit of information in a computer system?

    • Nibble
    • Byte
    • Bit
    • Word
  3. How many different values can be represented with n bits?

    • n x 8
    • n^2
    • 2n
    • 2^n
  4. Which is the fundamental unit of information?

    • The kilobyte
    • The 16-bit word
    • The byte
    • The bit
  5. How many different patterns can 3 bits be configured in?

    • 3
    • 8
    • 6
    • 9
  6. How many bytes are in 1 KiB?

    • 512 bytes
    • 2048 bytes
    • 1024 bytes
    • 1000 bytes
  7. What numerical value is represented by the decimal prefix kilo?

    • 10^6
    • 10^3
    • 2^20
    • 2^10
  8. How many bytes are in 2 KiB?

    • 1024
    • 4096
    • 2048
    • 2000
  9. How many bytes are in 1 MB when M is the decimal prefix?

    • 1,048,576 bytes
    • 1,000,000 bytes
    • 1,024 bytes
    • 10,000 bytes
  10. How many bits are in 5 bytes?

    • 50
    • 13
    • 40
    • 5
  11. A file is 3,072 bytes in size. How many KiB is this?

    • 3 KiB
    • 3,000 KiB
    • 30 KiB
    • 3.5 KiB
  12. How many bits are needed to store 300 different values?

    • 10
    • 9
    • 300
    • 8
  13. How many distinct values can 6 bits represent?

    • 32
    • 12
    • 36
    • 64
  14. How many gibibytes is 8,589,934,592 bytes?

    • 1 GiB
    • 64 GiB
    • 8 GiB
    • 16 GiB
  15. How many bytes are in 1 TiB, using the binary prefix tebi?

    • 10^12 bytes
    • 2^40 bytes
    • 10^9 bytes
    • 2^30 bytes
  16. What is the minimum number of bits needed to store one million distinct values?

    • 19
    • 10
    • 20
    • 24
  17. How many bytes are in one kibibyte (1 KiB)?

    • 1024
    • 1048576
    • 1000
    • 100
  18. A 16-bit unsigned integer can store how many distinct values?

    • 32,768
    • 65,536
    • 16,384
    • 16
  19. Which data storage quantity represents the greater number of bytes?

    • 500 GiB
    • 500 KB
    • 500 GB
    • 500 MB
  20. How many bits are in 1 MiB?

    • 8,000,000 bits
    • 1,000,000 bits
    • 1,048,576 bits
    • 8,388,608 bits

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