Railways PYQCBT 1 2020

RRB NTPC · Question 40

ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers. It is the acronym for _____

  1. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

  2. American Secure Code for Information Interchange

  3. Australian Standard Code for Information Interchange

  4. Australian Secure Code for Information Interchange

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Answer: (A) American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Explanation

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-bit code that gives each character a number from 0 to 127.