C Quiz #01: Bit, Byte etc

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Question 1: 8 Bits are collectively called as ?
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Byte

 Question 2: What is MSB and LSB of decimal 42 ?
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Binary representation of 42 is 101010. Hence MSB - 1 and LSB - 0. If we had represented 42 using 1 byte binary representation. Binary representation of 42 is 0010 1010. Then MSB - 0 and LSB - 0

Question 3: C is _______ level language ? A) Low B) Middle C) High
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C is middle level language.
There is equal claims that it is high as well as low level language.

Question 4: Eight bytes of data consists of how many nibble ?
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1 nibble consists of 4 bits. 1 byte consists of 8 bits. Hence a byte will consists of 2 nibble. Eight bytes will have 16 nibbles in them. Hence 16 is the answer

Question 5: What is origin of name byte ?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/bit_byte/

Question 6: What is origin of name nibble ?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble

Question 7: Fixes set of bits that is processed by the CPU at a time is called ?
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word

Question 8: What is word length of 16 bit CPU ? 32 but CPU ? 64 bit CPU ?
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16 bit CPU word length is 16 bit (2 byte).
32 bit CPU word length is 32 bit (4 byte).
64 bit CPU word length is 32 bit (8 byte).

Question 9: What is hex representation of binary 1001 ?
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It is 5 H. In c it is representation as 0x5.

Question 10: What is hex representation of decimal 10 ?
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decimal 10 in binary is 1010, hex representation is A. (in terms of C it is 0xH)

Question 11: What does ASCII stand for ?
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Question 12: What is ASCII value of ' ' (space)? 
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Decimal 32 or Hex 20.

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