FC0-U71 Tech Concepts and Terminology Practice Question
A technician is explaining data representation to a trainee. Which TWO of the following are character encoding standards used in computing? (Select TWO).
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ASCII
ASCII and Unicode/UTF-8 are both character encoding standards. JPEG is an image format, MP3 is an audio format, and ZIP is a compression format.
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MP3
Why it's wrong here
MP3 is an audio compression format.
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ASCII
Why this is correct
ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding standard.
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JPEG
Why it's wrong here
JPEG is an image compression format, not a character encoding.
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ZIP
Why it's wrong here
ZIP is a file compression and archive format.
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Unicode/UTF-8
Why this is correct
Unicode/UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding supporting all languages.
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