FC0-U61 · Question #640
Which of the following notational systems represents physical electrical impulses going into electronic and computing devices?
The correct answer is B. Binary. Binary is the notational system that represents the two states of electrical impulses (on/off, high/low voltage) used by electronic and computing devices.
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Which of the following notational systems represents physical electrical impulses going into electronic and computing devices?
Options
- ADecimal
- BBinary
- CHexadecimal
- DASCII
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(34 responses)- B91% (31)
- C3% (1)
- D6% (2)
Why each option
Binary is the notational system that represents the two states of electrical impulses (on/off, high/low voltage) used by electronic and computing devices.
Decimal is a base-10 numeral system used by humans for counting, not directly by electronic devices for fundamental operations.
Binary, a base-2 numeral system, uses only two symbols, typically 0 and 1, to represent data. These two states directly correspond to the physical electrical impulses (e.g., presence or absence of voltage, or high/low voltage) that electronic and computing devices process.
Hexadecimal is a base-16 numeral system often used by humans to represent large binary values more compactly, but it is not the direct representation of electrical impulses.
ASCII is a character encoding standard that assigns numerical values to characters, which are then represented in binary, but ASCII itself is not the notational system for electrical impulses.
Concept tested: Binary representation of electrical signals
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