Course 1.1: Character Encoding

Question 1

What is character encoding?

Answer 1

Character encoding assigns binary values to characters so computers can represent readable text.

Question 2

What was the first major character encoding standard?

Answer 2

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).

Question 3

What characters does ASCII represent?

Answer 3

English alphabet

Numbers

Punctuation symbols

Question 4

What is a limitation of ASCII?

Answer 4

It only supports 256 characters and is not sufficient for global languages or modern symbols.

Question 5

What is UTF-8?

Answer 5

UTF-8 is a modern encoding standard that supports ASCII while allowing characters to be represented using multiple bytes.

Question 6

Why is binary conversion important for IT support specialists?

Answer 6

Because it helps with:

Networking

Security

Troubleshooting

Understanding how computers process data

Question 7

How can you convert binary or decimal to characters?

Answer 7

By using character encoding tables such as ASCII or UTF-8.

Question 8

What is the main takeaway of binary and encoding concepts?

Answer 8

Computers communicate using binary, and encoding systems translate binary into human-readable data.