Practical No.

1: Measurement units of information

What is a byte?
It is a unit of information used by computers.
b. It is a unit of measurement to calibrate information on the Internet.
c. It is a type of storage data.
2. How much is a Kilobyte (KB) equivalent to?
It is equivalent to 1024 bits.
b. It is equivalent to 1024 bytes.
It is equivalent to 1024 megabytes.
5. What is a pixel?
It is a data storage unit.
b. It is the minimum graphic element with which images on the monitor are made.
c. It is a unit of measurement of the number of colors in an image on the monitor.
7. What is USB?
It is a plug & play type interface between a computer and certain devices.
b. It is a type of graphics accelerator card.
c. It is an emulator for console games.
In Computing, it is about the representation of a zero or a one:
the baud
b. The byte
c. The bit
9. It is a set of 8 bits, which comprise a character:
the byte
b. The Hertz
The Watt
10. Numeric system based on the use of zeros and ones:
a. Hexadecimal
b. Binary
c. Octagesimal
A hard drive stores zeros and ones based on:
a. The concentration of magnetic particles
b. The IDE or SATA interface that has
c. The disk format (2.5" or 3.5")
12. The equivalent of 480 Megabits per second in Kilobytes/second is:
a. 60 Mb/s
b. 220 Mb/s
c. 480 Mb/s
It is the current unit of measurement for the operating frequency of a device:
Gigahertz
b. Megabytes
c. Megaohms
14. It is the current unit of measurement for the storage of a device's cache memory:
a. Amperes
b. Megabits
c. Megabytes
14. Indicate the correct option: A bit is:
a. The smallest unit used to measure information.
b. The number of bytes required to store a character.
c. A unit for measuring the transmission speed of information.
15. Indicate the correct option: A byte is:
the eighth part of a bit.
b. A random set of bits
c. The number of bits needed to represent a character.
16. An MP3 player has 8 GB of capacity and it is desired to store music files on it that
They have an average size of 5 MB. How many songs can be saved? What remains to be represented.
in KB.
17. How many photos could a digital camera with 10 GB of internal memory store if each photo has a...
size of 5.5 MB?
18. Google requires 850 TB to host 24 billion pages, what will be the average size of a
page? Express the value in KB.☺☺☺
19. Considering that the capacity of a CD is 1024 MB, and that I have two files: theme 1 of a
subject in PDF format, 512 KB and a tutorial with images, in Word format, 6 MB. Calculate
How many copies of both files can be made and how much free space remains at the end of this operation.
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20. It is estimated that Gmail has about 50 million users, and it is supposed that each one requires a
Storage of 2747 MB. Estimate the necessary size to maintain this service. Express the result.
in Petabytes.☺☺☺☺☺
21. A recent study revealed that during 2006 the amount of digital information created, captured and
replicated worldwide was 161 billion gigabytes, 3 million times the information
contained in all the written books. How many exabytes does that correspond to?☺☺☺☺☺
22. The readers' section of a city newspaper imposes as the only restriction for the publication of the
letters, that the text does not exceed 1500 characters. What will be the size in KB of a TXT file that
Does that text contain?
23. Your email account allows you to send files up to 1 MB to your contacts. Indicate in
for each case you can send the following files (For each case perform the corresponding calculations):
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A photograph of their vacation of 1.317 Kb: .....
A music file in MP3 format of 1,259,459 Bytes: …..
c. A note that must be studied of 7,487,458.806 Bits: .....
A floppy disk has a capacity of up to 1.44 Mb. This is equivalent to:
a.……………………….Kb.
b.……………………….Bytes.
c.……………………….GB.
25. A disk has a storage capacity of 3,276.80 MB and its used space is 1.8 GB. What is
Is it the amount of free bytes on that disk?
26. A CD of songs in MP3 format is to be recorded for listening in the car. If the songs weigh
on average 2.5 MB, how many topics can be recorded?
27. A friend has the photos from her birthday on a pendrive and they take up 690,800 KB. Can they be recorded?
the photos on CD? How much space is left?
28. A camera has a memory chip of 512 MB. How many photos can it store in low mode?
resolution, for example, 600 KB on average?
29. An e-book reader is available with a capacity to store up to 2GB. It is desired to load it with the same
the notes of the 3 subjects of the first quarter: those of Mathematics I weigh 26MB, those of Introduction
In Computer Science 8.363 KB and in Sociology of Organizations 3.638.336 bytes. Is it possible? If so,
How many KB free will be left?☺☺☺☺
30. An Internet provider offers a 25 MB web space. A website was created that includes 8 pages.
HTML that adds up to 96.201 bytes in total, 100KB of images and some photos that occupy 15.4 MB. How much?
Will space be available after uploading the site?☺☺☺
Storage unit conversion exercises.
31. Calculate how many bytes a document that is 69 Kb occupies.
32. I have a DVD of 4,812.8 megabytes, how many gigabytes do I have with this amount?
33. How many 700 Mb CDs will I need to match the capacity of a 4.7 Gb DVD?
34. Two CDs with music in MP3 format, each containing 700 Mb. What size of memory card is needed?
What SD do I need to copy the music?☺☺
I have the following flash drives: 4Gb, 3Gb, and one of 512Mb. Which of the flash drives is the most?
suitable for downloading videos from the web, in MP4 format, if the video has a total of 3,145,728 Kb?☺☺☺
36. On the PC, there are 100 music tracks of 3,072Kb each. Can I download the music tracks to the player?
512 Mb MP3?
A 4 GB USB drive has 35% free space, will it be able to store a map
digitized from 980,000 KB? Perform the calculations.
I have a one terabyte hard drive that is known to have 35% of it damaged, discarding that part.
It is known that the disk contains the following files: 35% music, 15% video, 10% of
8% of images, 12% of programs and 20% of blank space. Represent each one
of the data in Megabytes.☺☺☺☺☺