CNIT 176 LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SCORED A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the common alphanumeric codes?
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) Ordinal
d) EBCDIC - ✔✔c) Ordinal
✔✔The alphanumeric code that has codes for the characters of nearly every character-
based alphabet of the world is
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) Ordinal
d) EBCDIC - ✔✔b) Unicode
✔✔Characters used to control the position of the output on the screen or paper, to
cause some action to occur, such as ringing a bell or deleting a character, or to
communicate status between the computer and an I/O device are called
a) glyphs
b) symbols
c) control characters
d) command characters - ✔✔c) control characters
✔✔The order of the alphanumeric codes in the representation table, which will
determine how data is sorted, is known as
a) metadata
b) scan code
c) control code
d) collating sequence - ✔✔d) collating sequence
✔✔How many bytes are needed to store one ASCII character?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4 - ✔✔a) 1
✔✔The presentation of an image as input or output, one pixel at a time, in order, is
called
a) metadata
b) sampling
c) a raster scan
d) collating sequence - ✔✔c) a raster scan
, ✔✔Image files that store each individual point within the image are
a) glyphs
b) vector images
c) object images
d) bitmap images - ✔✔d) bitmap images
✔✔Images that are defined mathematically as geometrically definable shapes that can
be easily moved around, scaled, and rotated without losing their shape and identity are
known as
a) GIF images
b) raster images
c) vector images
d) bitmap images. - ✔✔c) vector images
✔✔An example of an image file that uses lossless compression is
a) TIFF
b) PNG
c) MP3
d) JPEG - ✔✔b) PNG
(TIFF gives users the option between lossy and lossless compression)
✔✔Which image file format is best used for photographs of real-world objects?
a) GIF
b) PNG
c) MP3
d) JPEG - ✔✔d) JPEG
✔✔The nature of display technology makes it much more convenient and cost effective
for regular printers and display screens to display and print all images as
a) palettes
b) bitmaps
c) equations
d) pseudocode - ✔✔b) bitmaps
✔✔What is the name of the separator between the integer and fractional part of a
floating point number?
a) Decimal Point
b) Radix Point
c) Mantissa
d) Significand - ✔✔b) Radix Point
✔✔The first generation of computing started with computers that used the following to
build their calculating mechanisms:
ANSWERS SCORED A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the common alphanumeric codes?
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) Ordinal
d) EBCDIC - ✔✔c) Ordinal
✔✔The alphanumeric code that has codes for the characters of nearly every character-
based alphabet of the world is
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) Ordinal
d) EBCDIC - ✔✔b) Unicode
✔✔Characters used to control the position of the output on the screen or paper, to
cause some action to occur, such as ringing a bell or deleting a character, or to
communicate status between the computer and an I/O device are called
a) glyphs
b) symbols
c) control characters
d) command characters - ✔✔c) control characters
✔✔The order of the alphanumeric codes in the representation table, which will
determine how data is sorted, is known as
a) metadata
b) scan code
c) control code
d) collating sequence - ✔✔d) collating sequence
✔✔How many bytes are needed to store one ASCII character?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4 - ✔✔a) 1
✔✔The presentation of an image as input or output, one pixel at a time, in order, is
called
a) metadata
b) sampling
c) a raster scan
d) collating sequence - ✔✔c) a raster scan
, ✔✔Image files that store each individual point within the image are
a) glyphs
b) vector images
c) object images
d) bitmap images - ✔✔d) bitmap images
✔✔Images that are defined mathematically as geometrically definable shapes that can
be easily moved around, scaled, and rotated without losing their shape and identity are
known as
a) GIF images
b) raster images
c) vector images
d) bitmap images. - ✔✔c) vector images
✔✔An example of an image file that uses lossless compression is
a) TIFF
b) PNG
c) MP3
d) JPEG - ✔✔b) PNG
(TIFF gives users the option between lossy and lossless compression)
✔✔Which image file format is best used for photographs of real-world objects?
a) GIF
b) PNG
c) MP3
d) JPEG - ✔✔d) JPEG
✔✔The nature of display technology makes it much more convenient and cost effective
for regular printers and display screens to display and print all images as
a) palettes
b) bitmaps
c) equations
d) pseudocode - ✔✔b) bitmaps
✔✔What is the name of the separator between the integer and fractional part of a
floating point number?
a) Decimal Point
b) Radix Point
c) Mantissa
d) Significand - ✔✔b) Radix Point
✔✔The first generation of computing started with computers that used the following to
build their calculating mechanisms:
