ITE 221 ch 3 quiz, ITE 221 CH.2 INTRODUCTION
TO SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS\ACTUAL EXAM
The rightmost digit in a bit least significant digit
string is the ____.
a. least significant digit
b. most significant digit
c. least valuable digit
d. most valuable digit
Large numeric values binary
expressed in octal
notation are one-third the
length of corresponding
____ notation.
a. decimal
b. ternary
c. binary
d. hexadecimal
Hexadecimal numbering 16
uses __ as its base or
radix.
a. 2
b. 8
c. 10
d. 16
,The term " _ " describes compactness
the number of bits used to
represent a numeric value.
a. compactness
b. completeness
c. value
d. Efficiency
Most CPUs provide a(n) unsigned intege
____ data type, which stores
positive integer values as
ordinary binary numbers.
a. signed integer
b. signed real
c. unsigned integer
d. unsigned real
____ notation always uses a Excess
fixed number of bits, with
the leftmost bit
representing the sign.
a. Ones complement
b. Excess
c. Twos complement
d. Packed
,The accuracy, or precision, the number of data bits used
of data format
representation increases
with ____.
a. the size of the data
word
b. the sign of the data
format
c. the number of data bits
used
d. the position of the radix
When discussing manipulation
computer processing, ____
refers to executing
processor instructions,
such as addition,
subtraction, and equality
comparisons, and "ease"
refers to machine
efficiency.
a. abstraction
b. manipulation
c. interpolation
d. inference
A(n) __ is a whole number integer
—a value that doesn't have
a fractional part.
a. real number
b. imaginary number
c. floating point number
d. integer
, In ___ notation, twos complement
nonnegative integer
values are represented as
ordinary binary values.
a. twos complement
b. ones complement
c. excess
d. packed
____ occurs when the Overflow
absolute value of a
computational result
contains too many bits to
fit into a fixed-width data
format.
a. Underflow
b. Rounding
c. Approximation
d. Overflow
TO SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS\ACTUAL EXAM
The rightmost digit in a bit least significant digit
string is the ____.
a. least significant digit
b. most significant digit
c. least valuable digit
d. most valuable digit
Large numeric values binary
expressed in octal
notation are one-third the
length of corresponding
____ notation.
a. decimal
b. ternary
c. binary
d. hexadecimal
Hexadecimal numbering 16
uses __ as its base or
radix.
a. 2
b. 8
c. 10
d. 16
,The term " _ " describes compactness
the number of bits used to
represent a numeric value.
a. compactness
b. completeness
c. value
d. Efficiency
Most CPUs provide a(n) unsigned intege
____ data type, which stores
positive integer values as
ordinary binary numbers.
a. signed integer
b. signed real
c. unsigned integer
d. unsigned real
____ notation always uses a Excess
fixed number of bits, with
the leftmost bit
representing the sign.
a. Ones complement
b. Excess
c. Twos complement
d. Packed
,The accuracy, or precision, the number of data bits used
of data format
representation increases
with ____.
a. the size of the data
word
b. the sign of the data
format
c. the number of data bits
used
d. the position of the radix
When discussing manipulation
computer processing, ____
refers to executing
processor instructions,
such as addition,
subtraction, and equality
comparisons, and "ease"
refers to machine
efficiency.
a. abstraction
b. manipulation
c. interpolation
d. inference
A(n) __ is a whole number integer
—a value that doesn't have
a fractional part.
a. real number
b. imaginary number
c. floating point number
d. integer
, In ___ notation, twos complement
nonnegative integer
values are represented as
ordinary binary values.
a. twos complement
b. ones complement
c. excess
d. packed
____ occurs when the Overflow
absolute value of a
computational result
contains too many bits to
fit into a fixed-width data
format.
a. Underflow
b. Rounding
c. Approximation
d. Overflow
