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1. How many bits are there in a byte?
- A. 16
- B. 16
- C. 16
- D. 16
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.
To disambiguate arbitrarily - sized bytes from the common 8 - bit definition, network protocol documents such as The Internet Protocol (RFC 791)(1981) refer to an 8 - bit byte as an octet.
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