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1.3 Information Coding Schemes

Learning Outcome:
Section A:
a) Describe how computers encode characters.
b) Calculate the total number of b
c) its/bytes in a given word based on each coding scheme.
Section B:
d) Differentiate the coding system based on number of bits and total number of
characters represented.

1. State two (2) types of codes to represent character data in 0s and 1s.
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2. Define coding scheme.
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3. Explain one (1) important of coding scheme.

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4. The following phrase used by ASCII system.

#Talian Nur: 15999

a. Identify number of characters. [1 mark]

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b. How many bits are involved? [2 marks]
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c. How many bytes are involved? [2 marks]
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d. Explain two (2) disadvantages of using ASCII and EBCDIC coding scheme. [2 marks]
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e. Give two (2) differentiate between EBCDIC and Unicode. [4 marks]

EBCDIC Unicode

2. Halim is an expert on human linguistics. He is currently studying a data file in his

computer containing 3000 ancient Chinese characters.

a. Identify suitable coding scheme to represent Halim’s data file. [1 mark]

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b. Give one (1) reason to support your answer. [2 marks]
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c. Describe one (1) advantage of Unicode. [2 marks]
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d. Describe one (1) disadvantage of Unicode compared to ASCII. [2 marks]
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e. Name the coding scheme used by IBM mainframe and state one (1) characteristic
for this coding scheme. [2 marks]
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