ALLIED CIS105 MODULE 2 CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

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Directions: Read the questions below and
formulate a brief answer. Your response
to each question should be at least one half of one page in length. Students must utilize APA guidelines for
formatting and citations.
1. Name five types of data that
a computer can process.
2. How is bit pattern length
related to the number of symbols the bit pattern can represent?
3. How does the
bitmap graphic method represent an image as a bit pattern?
4. What is the
advantage of the vector graphic method over the bitmap graphic method? What is the disadvantage?
5. What steps are
needed to convert audio data to bits patterns?
6. Compare and
contrast the representation of positive integers in unsigned, sign-and-magnitude
format, and two’s complement format.
7. Compare and
contrast the representation of negative integers in sign-and-magnitude format,
and two’s complement format.
8. Compare and
contrast the representation of zero in sign-and-magnitude, two’s complement,
and Excess formats.
9. Discuss the role
of the leftmost bit in sign-and-magnitude and two’s complement formats.
10. Why is
normalization necessary in floating-point representations of real numbers;
after a number is normalize, what kind of information does a computer store in
memory. What is mantissa?