3.5.3.2 Units of Information: Units.

Question 1

How can quantities of Bytes be described?

Answer 1

Using binary prefixes or decimal prefixes.

Question 2

What prefix goes up in powers of two?

Answer 2

Binary.

Question 3

What prefix goes up in powers of ten?

Answer 3

Decimal.

Question 4

In base 10 what is the value of 1000 referred to as?

Answer 4

A Kilo (Kilobyte).

Question 5

In base 10 what is the value of 1,000,000 referred to as?

Answer 5

A Mega (Megabyte).
(1000 Kilobytes).

Question 6

In base 10 what is the value of 1,000,000,000 referred to as?

Answer 6

A Giga (Gigabyte).
(1000 Megabytes).

Question 7

In base 10 what is the value of 1,000,000,000,000 referred to as?

Answer 7

A Tera (Terabyte).
(1000 Gigabytes).

Question 8

In base 2 what is the value 1,024 referred to as?

Answer 8

Kibi.

Question 9

In base 2 what is 1,048,576 referred to as?

Answer 9

Mebi.

1,024 x 1,024

Question 10

In base 2 what is the value 1,073,741,824 referred to as?

Answer 10

Gibi.

1,048,576 X 1,024

Question 11

In base 2 what is 1,099,511,627,776 referred to as?

Answer 11

Tebi

1,073,741,824 x 1,024

Question 12

What is the symbol and power of a kibi?

Answer 12

Ki

2^10

Question 13

What is the symbol and power of a mebi?

Answer 13

Mi

2^20

Question 14

What is the symbol and power of a gibi?

Answer 14

Gi

2^30

Question 15

What is the symbol and power of a tebi?

Answer 15

Ti

2^40

Question 16

Easy way to calculate binary base two prefixes:

Answer 16

(1,024 x 1,024) = ans
ans x 1,024 = ans2
ans 2 x 1,024 etc.