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Multiple Choice Questions on Error Detection and Correction

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1. Which error detection method uses one's complement arithmetic?

A)           Simple parity check

B)           Two-dimensional parity check

C)           CRC

D)           Checksum

 

2. Which error detection method consists of just one redundant bit per data unit?

A)           Simple parity check

B)           Two-dimensional parity check

C)           CRC

D)           Checksum

 

3. In cyclic redundancy checking, what is the CRC?

A)           The divisor

B)           The quotient

C)           The dividend

D)           The remainder

 

4. In cyclic redundancy checking, the divisor is _______ the CRC.

A)           The same size as

B)           one bit less than

C)           one bit more than

D)           none of the above

 

5. A burst error means that two or more bits in the data unit have changed.

A)           double-bit

B)           burst

C)           single-bit

D)           none of the above

 

6. In ________ error correction, the receiver corrects errors without requesting retransmission.

A)           backward

B)           onward

C)           forward

D)           none of the above

 

7. In ________ error correction, the receiver asks the sender to send the data again.

A)           backward

B)           retransmission

C)           forward

D)           none of the above

 

8. We can divide coding schemes into two broad categories: ________ and ______coding.

A)           block; linear

B)           linear; nonlinear

C)           block; convolution

D)           none of the above

 

9. In modulo-2 arithmetic, __________ give the same results.

A)           addition and multiplication

B)           addition and division

C)           addition and subtraction

D)           none of the above

 

10. In modulo-2 arithmetic, we use the ______ operation for both addition and subtraction.

A)           XOR

B)           OR

C)           AND

D)           none of the above

 

11. In _____ coding, we divide our message into blocks, each of k bits, called ___.

A)           block; blockwords

B)           linear; datawords

C)           block; datawords

D)           none of the above

 

12. We add r redundant bits to each block to make the length n = k + r. The resulting n-bit blocks are called _________.

A)           datawords

B)           blockwords

C)           codewords

D)           none of the above

 

13. The ________ between two words is the number of differences between corresponding bits.

A)           Hamming code

B)           Hamming distance

C)           Hamming rule

D)           none of the above

 

14. To guarantee the detection of up to 5 errors in all cases, the minimum Hamming distance in a block code must be _______.

A)           5

B)           6

C)           11

D)           none of the above

 

15. To guarantee correction of up to 5 errors in all cases, the minimum Hamming distance in a block code must be ________.

A)           5

B)           6

C)           11

D)           none of the above

 

16. In a linear block code, the _______ of any two valid codewords creates another valid codeword.

A)           XORing

B)           ORing

C)           ANDing

D)           none of the above

 

17. A simple parity-check code can detect __________ errors.

A)           an even-number of

B)           two

C)           no errors

D)           an odd-number of

 

18. _______codes are special linear block codes with one extra property. If a codeword is rotated, the result is another codeword.

A)           Non-linear

B)           Convolution

C)           Cyclic

D)           none of the above

 

19. The _____of errors is more difficult than the ______.

A)           correction; detection

B)           detection; correction

C)           creation; correction

D)           creation; detection

 

20. In modulo-11 arithmetic, we use only the integers in the range ______, inclusive.

A)           1 to 10

B)           1 to 11

C)           0 to 10

D)           none of the above

 

21. In modulo-2 arithmetic, we use only ______.

A)           1 and 2

B)           0 and 2

C)           0 and 1

D)           none of the above

 

22. Adding 1 and 1 in modulo-2 arithmetic results in _________.

A)           1

B)           2

C)           0

D)           none of the above

 

23. In block coding, if k =2 and n =3, we have _______ invalid codewords.

A)           8

B)           4

C)           2

D)           none of the above

 

24. The Hamming distance between equal codewords is _________.

A)           1

B)           n

C)           0

D)           none of the above

 

25. The Hamming distance between 100 and 001 is ________.

A)           2

B)           0

C)           1

D)           none of the above

 

26. In block coding, if n = 5, the maximum Hamming distance between two codewords is ________.

A)           2

B)           3

C)           5

D)           none of the above

 

27. If the Hamming distance between a dataword and the corresponding codeword is three, there are _____ bits in error.

A)           3

B)           4

C)           5

D)           none of the above

 

28. The _______ of a polynomial is the highest power in the polynomial.

A)           range

B)           degree

C)           power

D)           none of the above

 

29. The divisor in a cyclic code is normally called the _________.

A)           degree

B)           generator

C)           redundancy

D)           none of the above

 

30. A generator that contains a factor of ____ can detect all odd-numbered errors.

A)           x

B)           x + 1

C)           1

D)           none of the above

 

31. Checksums use _________ arithmetic.

A)           two's complement arithmetic

B)           one's complement arithmetic

C)           either (a) or (b)

D)           none of the above

 

32. In one's complement arithmetic, if positive 7 is 0111, then negative 7 is ________.

A)           1111

B)           1101

C)           1000

D)           none of the above

 

33. The checksum of 1111 and 1111 is _________.

A)           1111

B)           0000

C)           1110

D)           0111

 

34. The checksum of 0000 and 0000 is __________.

A)           1111

B)           0000

C)           1110

D)           0111

 

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