Data Storage Questions

Use APA format to answer the following questions:

1.      Name five types of data that a computer can process.

2.      How is bit pattern length related to the number of symbols the bit pattern can represent?

3.      How does the bitmap graphic method represent an image as a bit pattern?

4.      What is the advantage of the vector graphic method over the bitmap graphic method?  What is the disadvantage?

5.      What steps are needed to convert audio data to bits patterns?

6.      Compare and contrast the representation of positive integers in unsigned, sign-and-magnitude format, and two’s complement format.

7.      Compare and contrast the representation of negative integers in sign-and-magnitude format, and two’s complement format.

8.      Compare and contrast the representation of zero in sign-and-magnitude, two’s complement, and Excess formats.

9.      Discuss the role of the leftmost bit in sign-and-magnitude and two’s complement formats.

10.    Why is normalization necessary in floating-point representations of real numbers; after a number is normalize, what kind of information does a computer store in memory.  What is mantissa?