Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 85

Which of the following statements is true with respect to ASCII? A. A programming language B. ASCII chart is not for decimals C. American Security Code for Information Interchange D. A character encoding scheme

  1. D

  2. B

  3. A

  4. C

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Answer: (A) D

Explanation

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding scheme: it assigns numbers 0–127 to letters, digits, punctuation and control codes (for example 'A' = 65). It is not a programming language, and the 'S' stands for Standard, not Security.