Multiple choice

When a key is pressed on the keyboard, which standard is used for converting the keystroke into the corresponding bits?

  1. ANSI

  2. ASCII

  3. EBCDIC

  4. ISO

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Explanation

When a key is pressed on a keyboard, the scan code is generated by the keyboard controller following ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards that define keyboard layout and key mappings. ASCII is a character encoding scheme, not a keyboard input standard.