This week there are 3 exam style questions for you to practice based on this week’s hexadecimal topic. Once you have submitted your answers, come back here to see your tutor’s marks & feedback.
0 of 3 Questions completed
Questions:
You must fill out this field. |
|
You must fill out this field. |
You have already completed the assessment before. Hence you can not start it again.
Assessment is loading…
You must sign in or sign up to start the assessment.
You must first complete the following:
0 of 3 Questions answered correctly
Your time:
Time has elapsed
You have reached 0 of 0 point(s), (0)
Earned Point(s): 0 of 0, (0)
0 Essay(s) Pending (Possible Point(s): 0)
Well done for completing this week’s practice questions.
Don’t worry if not all questions have been marked! As some questions can’t be marked automatically, your tutor will be sent an email and will leave you some feedback on each of these longer questions soon. To see their feedback, click the practice question link in your course, or in your Gradebook:
For any written questions, you’ll be able to see & reply to your tutors comments on this screen.
Don’t forget that you can also ask questions & get help between lessons on the student message boards!
A programmer is attempting to find an error in a large program and is investigating where the data is being placed while the program runs.
Explain why a programmer might prefer to see memory locations displayed on screen as hexadecimal values instead of binary or denary numbers.
This response will be reviewed and graded after submission.
The following machine code instruction is stored in memory:
1111101010010011
Convert this number to Hexadecimal.
Write your answer as digits with no spaces.
The hexadecimal number system is in base 16, but it’s largest digit (F) represents the number 15. Explain why this is.
This response will be reviewed and graded after submission.