2.1.1 - Number System.
1. What is the base of the Decimal Number System?
Correct Answer: C) 10
2. Which number system uses only the digits 0 and 1?
Correct Answer: C) Binary
3. How many digits are used in the Binary Number System?
Correct Answer: A) 2
4. What is the base value of the Octal Number System?
Correct Answer: B) 8
5. In the Decimal Number System, what is the position value of the digit in position 2?
Correct Answer: A) 102
6. What is the base value of the Hexadecimal Number System?
Correct Answer: D) 16
7. Which notation represents a number in base 16?
Correct Answer: D) (1A3)16
8. What is the quantity of the digit in position 0 in the Binary Number System?
Correct Answer: A) 1
9. In the Binary Number System, what is the position value of the digit in position 3?
Correct Answer: D) 23
10. How is a number expressed in base 8 indicated in notation?
Correct Answer: C) (number)8
11. In the Decimal Number System, what is the position value of the digit in position -2?
Correct Answer: A) 10-2
12. What is the position value of the digit in position 1 in the Binary Number System?
Correct Answer: B) 21
13. How many digits are used in the Hexadecimal Number System?
Correct Answer: C) 16
14. In which number system is the number (1101) most commonly used in computing?
Correct Answer: B) Binary
15. In the Decimal Number System, what is the position value of the digit in position 3 of the number 5965?
Correct Answer: D) 103
16. What is the quantity of the digit in position -3 in the Binary Number System?
Correct Answer: C) 1/8
2.1.2 - Hexadecimal and Octal Number System.
17. What is the base of the octal number system?
Correct Answer: B) 8
18. Which digits are used in the octal number system?
Correct Answer: B) 0 to 7
19. What is the base of the hexadecimal number system?
Correct Answer: D) 16
20. Which of the following is NOT a valid octal number?
Correct Answer: C) 8F7
21. Which of the following digits is used to represent the decimal value 15 in hexadecimal?
Correct Answer: B) F
22. In hexadecimal, what decimal value does the letter 'B' represent?
Correct Answer: B) 11
23. Which of the following is a valid hexadecimal number?
Correct Answer: A) 1A2
24. What is the octal representation of the decimal number 8?
Correct Answer: B) 10
25. Which of the following digits is NOT used in the hexadecimal number system?
Correct Answer: C) G
26. How many unique digits are there in the hexadecimal number system?
Correct Answer: D) 16
27. What is the position value of the second digit from the right in an octal number?
Correct Answer: B) 81
28. In the number 2A3 (hexadecimal), what is the position value of 'A'?
Correct Answer: 161
29. Which hexadecimal digit represents the highest value?
Correct Answer: C) F
30. If the octal number is 345, what is the position value of the digit '4'?
Correct Answer: B) 81
31. In the hexadecimal number 3FA, what is the decimal equivalent of 'F'?
Correct Answer: C) 15
32. What is the smallest digit used in both octal and hexadecimal number systems?
Correct Answer: A) 0
33. What is the maximum digit in the octal number system?
Correct Answer: B) 7
34. Which of the following numbers is valid in both octal and hexadecimal systems?
Correct Answer: B) 137
35. Which of the following is the position value of the third digit from the right in a hexadecimal number?
Correct Answer: C) 162
36. What is the decimal equivalent of the octal number 17?
Correct Answer: B) 15
2.1.3 - Conversion Between Number System.
37. What is the procedure used to convert a decimal integer to binary?
Correct Answer: A) Divide by 2
38. How do you convert a decimal fraction to binary?
Correct Answer: B) Multiply by 2
39. What is the first step in converting a decimal integer fraction to any other base?
Correct Answer: B) Convert the decimal integer portion
40. To convert a decimal fraction to octal, which operation is performed?
Correct Answer: B) Multiply by 8
41. What is the result of converting 0.2345 from Base 10 to Base 2?
Correct Answer: A) 0.001111
42. How do you convert a binary number to octal?
Correct Answer: B) Group the binary digits into groups of three bits
43. Which base uses groups of four bits when converting from binary?
Correct Answer: C) Hexadecimal
44. What is the first step to convert 34.4674 from Base 10 to Base 2?
Correct Answer: A) Convert the integer portion to binary
45. In which position does the digit with the value 0.011001 in binary convert to?
Correct Answer: C) Base 10
46. What is the decimal equivalent of the binary number 1011.1001?
Correct Answer: A) 11.5625
47. Which of the following is NOT a step in converting binary to hexadecimal?
Correct Answer: C) Convert each group of three bits to a hexadecimal digit
48. When converting from octal to decimal, which value is used for the position of the digit?
Correct Answer: A) Position increases to the left of the decimal point
49. To convert a hexadecimal number to decimal, which operation is performed on each digit?
Correct Answer: C) Find the sum of Face Value * (from Base) position
50. How is the binary number 1110101100110 converted to octal?
Correct Answer: A) Group the binary digits into sets of three bits
51. What is the decimal equivalent of the octal number 24.36?
Correct Answer: A) 20.4375
2.1.4 - One's Complement.
52. What is the 1’s complement of the binary number 10101100?
Correct Answer: B) 01010011
53. In one's complement, what happens to each bit of the binary number?
Correct Answer: A) Each 0 is converted to 1, and each 1 is converted to 0
54. Which of the following represents the 1’s complement of 1101.101?
Correct Answer: B) 0010.010
55. Which of the following is NOT an application of 1’s complement?
Correct Answer: D) Decimal to binary conversion
56. What is the 1’s complement representation of the binary number 1010 in 4 bits?
Correct Answer: A) 0101
57. What is the maximum positive integer that can be stored in a 5-bit register using one's complement?
Correct Answer: B) 24 - 1
58. In one’s complement form, how is -6 represented using 8 bits?
Correct Answer: A) 1111 1001
59. Which of the following is a property of the 1's complement representation?
Correct Answer: A) It has two representations for zero: positive zero and negative zero
60. What is the range of numbers that can be represented using 1’s complement in a 4-bit register?
Correct Answer: B) -7 to 7
61. What is the binary representation of -10 in one's complement using 8 bits?
Correct Answer: A) 1111 0101
2.1.5 - Two's Complemen.
62. What is one of the major flaws of using the signed bit method for representing signed integers?
Correct Answer: B) Two representations of zero
63. In the 1’s complement method, how do you represent a negative number?
Correct Answer: A) By flipping each bit of the positive number
64. Which of the following is not a problem with the signed bit method?
Correct Answer: B) Negative numbers work with signed extensions
65. In the 2’s complement method, how do you get the binary representation of a negative number?
Correct Answer: B) Flip each bit of the positive number and add 1
66. What is a significant advantage of the 2’s complement method over other methods?
Correct Answer: B) Only one representation of zero
67. In 2’s complement, how can you detect memory overflow?
Correct Answer: A) When carry into the signed bit is equal to carry out
68. What is the primary issue with 1’s complement representation?
Correct Answer: B) Two representations of zero
69. In the signed bit method, what is the role of the leftmost bit?
Correct Answer: B) Indicates the sign of the number
70. What is a drawback of binary addition using the signed bit method?
Correct Answer: A) The sign bit must be handled separately
71. In 2’s complement, why is the first bit referred to as the signed bit?
Correct Answer: B) All positive numbers start with 0, and all negative numbers start with 1
2.1.6 - Boolean Algebra and Laws.
72. What is the primary focus of Boolean algebra?
Correct Answer: B) Algebra involving binary variables and logic operations
73. In Boolean algebra, what is the complement of a variable A denoted as?
Correct Answer: D) A bar
74. Which Boolean operation is equivalent to Boolean addition?
Correct Answer: A) OR operation
75. Which Boolean operation is equivalent to Boolean multiplication?
Correct Answer: B) AND operation
76. What does a product term in Boolean algebra require to be equal to 1?
Correct Answer: A) All literals must be 1
77. How is a sum term in Boolean algebra determined to be equal to 1?
Correct Answer: B) At least one literal must be 1
78. Which law of Boolean algebra is applied in the following expression: A + (B + C) = (A + B) + C?
Correct Answer: B) Associative Addition Law
79. What is the primary function of an inverter gate in Boolean algebra?
Correct Answer: C) To produce the complement of a variable
80. In the Boolean function F = x + y'z, what does the term y'z represent?
Correct Answer: C) An AND operation
81. How many combinations are listed in a truth table for n binary variables?
Correct Answer: A) 2n
82. Which Boolean algebra rule is illustrated by the expression: A + A = A?
Correct Answer: B) Idempotent Law
83. What is the primary use of logic gates in computers?
Correct Answer: C) For manipulating binary data in circuits
84. What is the primary advantage of using Two’s Complement over One’s Complement in binary arithmetic?
Correct Answer: B) It provides easier arithmetic operations and overflow checks
85. What does the term "Boolean addition" refer to?
Correct Answer: B) The OR operation in Boolean algebra
86. Which number system uses digits 0-9 and letters A-F?
Correct Answer: D) Hexadecimal