Understanding units of data

Cards (37)

  • A byte is a collection of 8 bits.
  • How many kilobytes are in a megabyte?
    1,000 or 1,024
  • A gigabyte is equal to 1,000 or 1,024 megabytes.
  • Match the unit with its abbreviation:
    Kilobyte ↔️ KB
    Megabyte ↔️ MB
    Gigabyte ↔️ GB
    Terabyte ↔️ TB
  • A megabyte is equal to 1,024 kilobytes.
  • Each data unit in the binary system is 1,024 times larger than the previous one.

    True
  • A byte is a collection of 8 bits.
  • What is the smallest unit of digital data called?
    Bit
  • A kilobyte is always 1,024 bytes.
    False
  • Data units scale exponentially to represent increasingly large amounts of data.

    True
  • How many bytes are in a kilobyte based on powers of 2?
    1,024
  • What is the smallest unit of digital data?
    Bit
  • Bytes are used for characters or small data pieces.

    True
  • A byte consists of 8 bits.
  • A megabyte contains 1,024 kilobytes.
  • How many bytes are in a terabyte?
    1,099,511,627,776
  • Order the data units from smallest to largest.
    1️⃣ Bit
    2️⃣ Byte
    3️⃣ Kilobyte
    4️⃣ Megabyte
    5️⃣ Gigabyte
    6️⃣ Terabyte
    7️⃣ Petabyte
  • How many kilobytes are in a megabyte?
    1,024
  • Storage industry sometimes uses powers of 10 to label drive sizes.

    True
  • 1 kilobyte equals 1,024 bytes.
  • What is the conversion factor to change bytes to kilobytes?
    1 KB = 1024 bytes
  • To convert from MB to KB, you multiply by 1,024.

    True
  • The smallest unit of digital data is the bit.
  • How many megabytes are in a gigabyte?
    1,024
  • Video files can reach GB or TB in size.

    True
  • Match the data unit with its size in bytes:
    Kilobyte ↔️ 1,024
    Megabyte ↔️ 1,048,576
    Gigabyte ↔️ 1,073,741,824
    Terabyte ↔️ 1,099,511,627,776
  • How many bytes are in a kilobyte?
    1,024
  • A gigabyte is larger than a terabyte.
    False
  • A petabyte contains 1,024 terabytes.
  • 1 KB equals 1,024 bytes.

    True
  • 1 byte equals 8 bits.
  • What is the smallest unit of digital data?
    Bit
  • Converting 2 gigabytes to megabytes requires multiplying by 1,024.
    True
  • To convert kilobytes to megabytes, use the conversion factor 1 MB = 1024 KB.
  • Convert 3 MB to KB.
    3072 KB
  • A byte consists of 8 bits.

    True
  • File sizes are commonly measured in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes.