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Q. Makes the file smaller by deleting parts of the file permanently (forever)

  • (A) Lossy Compression
  • (B) Lossless Compression
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Lossy Compression

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Q. Which of these is an advantage for Lossy compression?

  • (A) The file size becomes significantly (much) smaller
  • (B) The file size does not become much smaller than 50%
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) The file size becomes significantly (much) smaller

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Q. What type of compression allows you to reconstruct the original data?

  • (A) Lossless compression
  • (B) Lossy compression
  • (C) ---
  • (D) ---
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Lossless compression

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Q. What are the key reasons for compressing data?

  • (A) Less space needed for storage
  • (B) Less time to transmit
  • (C) Reduced amount of processing power
  • (D) A and b
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) A and b

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Q. Lossless compression...

  • (A) Is used when not all the information is needed
  • (B) Would be a sensible choice for a music download site
  • (C) Can fully regenerate the original file
  • (D) a and c
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) a and c

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Q. Lossy compression...

  • (A) Permanently removes data from a file
  • (B) Aims to remove redundant data
  • (C) Would be a sensible choice for a music download site.
  • (D) all of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) all of the above

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Q. Dictionary based compression...

  • (A) Is a lossless compression format
  • (B) Doesn't need to send the dictionary with the data
  • (C) Is a lossless compression format
  • (D) all of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) all of the above

Published by Mr. Dubey ⭐ 107.78K Points at 14-Jun-2020 11:59 am in Data Compression and Data Retrieval

Q. Run-length encoding..

  • (A) Is Lossless
  • (B) Records the number of repeats of an individual element
  • (C) Can be used for a wide variety of file types
  • (D) all of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) all of the above

Published by Mr. Dubey ⭐ 107.78K Points at 14-Jun-2020 11:59 am in Data Compression and Data Retrieval

Q. Hashing gives each item

  • (A) A sequential address
  • (B) A logarithmic address
  • (C) No address
  • (D) A unique address
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) A unique address

Published by Mr. Dubey ⭐ 107.78K Points at 14-Jun-2020 11:59 am in Data Compression and Data Retrieval

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