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Lab - Use a Calculator for Binary Conversions Objectives Switch among Windows Calculator modes. Use Windows Calculator to convert between decimal and binary. Use Windows Calculator to determine the number of hosts in a network with powers of 2. Background / Scenario When working with networking devices, a network technician should understand binary and decimal numbers. In this lab, you will use the Windows Calculator application to convert between these numbering systems. You will also use the “powers” function to determine the number of hosts that can be addressed based on the number of bits available. Required Resources PC (Windows 10) Instructions Part 1: Using Windows Calculator Step 1: Access Windows Calculator and determine mode of operation. a. Open the Windows Calculator application. Click Start , type Calculator . Select Calculator in the results. Question: What mode is the Calculator in? The mode which Windows calculator application mode is set to is Standard. Type your answers here. b. Click the Open Navigation icon ( ) located in the upper left-hand corner. The Windows calculator supports different mode of calculations. Question: List the five modes for the calculator. If yours has more list all modes. My windows calculator has several of supported modes by default those are: “Standard”, “Scientific”, “Graphing”, “Programmer”, and “Date calculation”. Type your answers here. Step 2: Switch between modes. a. To switch between calculator modes, click the Open Navigation icon ( ) and select desired mode. b. Practice switching between calculator modes to see which options they provide. Question: Briefly explain the function of each mode. Standard Mode: This mode provides regular basic computing of integer values. Scientific Mode: This mode provides advanced computing of integer values and variable values. Graphing Mode: This mode provides advanced computing of integer values and variable values on a visual plane of an X and Y axis. 2016 - 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Page 1 of 5 www.netacad.com
Lab - Use a Calculator for Binary Conversions Programmer Mode: This mode provides complex computing and translation of values that are represented by other values such as HEX, DEC, OCT, BIN values. Date Calculation Mode: This mode provides a calculation between two different dates giving a result if how many Years, Month, Week, Days are between those two dates. Type your answers here. Part 2: Binary System Step 1: Convert between number systems. a. Select the Programmer mode calculator. b. The Programmer calculator supports four numbering systems — HEX (Hexadecimal), DEC (Decimal), OCT (Octal), and BIN (Binary). Questions: Which number system is currently active? The number system, which is currently active is Decimal mode. Type your answers here. Which numbers on the number pad are active in Decimal mode? The numbers which are active in Decimal mode are 0:10 (0-10). Type your answers here. c. Click BIN . Which numbers on the number pad are now active? In Binary mode there are two values that are active which are 1’s and 0’s. Type your answers here. Why do you think the other numbers are grayed out? Binary only computes 1’s and 0’s which mean that any other number cannot be interpreted by calculator in binary value. d. Click HEX Question: Which numbers on the number pad are now active? Numbers 1:10 are active in the number with the addition of alphabetical values A:F. Type your answers here. What items have been added and why? These items have been added due to the complexity of Hexadecimal as they have exact values in a ASCII Chart. Type your answers here. e. Click DEC . Using your mouse, click on the number 3 followed by the number 5 on the number pad. The decimal number 35 has now been entered. f. Now click BIN . Question: What happened to the number 15 listed in the textbox at the top of the window? The original number of 35, which was inputted into the results table now has been translated to a value of 0010 0011, which in Binary represents the value of 35 in Decimal value. Type your answers here. g. Enter the number 222 and select BIN. 2016 - 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Page 2 of 5 www.netacad.com
Lab - Use a Calculator for Binary Conversions Question: What is the binary equivalent of 222? The binary equivalent of 222, is “1101 1110”. Type your answers here. h. Clear the binary value representing 222 in the window. From Binary mode, type in the following binary number: 11011101 . Select the DEC . Question: What is the decimal equivalent to the binary number of 11011101? The decimal equivalent of binary 11011101 is the value “221”. Type your answers here. Step 2: Practice the conversion between binary and decimal numbering system. Questions: Convert the following decimal numbers to binary. Decimal Binary 186 1011 1010 75 0100 1011 224 1110 0000 119 0111 0111 Convert the following binary numbers to decimal. Binary Decimal 1100 1011 203 0110 1010 107 0111 1000 120 1101 0011 211 Part 3: Network Addresses Step 1: Convert host IP addresses. a. Computer hosts usually have two addresses, an Internet Protocol (IP) address and an Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) address. For the benefit of humans, the IP address is normally represented as a dotted decimal notation, such as 192.168.10.2. Each of the decimal octets in the address or a mask can be converted to 8 binary bits. Remember that the computer only understands binary bits. Question: If all 4 octets were converted to binary, how many bits would there be? 32 bits due to have 8 bits in each octet, which is 4x8. Type your answers here. b. IP addresses are normally shown with four decimal numbers ranging from 0 to 255 and separated by a period. Question: Convert the 4 parts of the IP address 192.168.10.25 to binary. 2016 - 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Page 3 of 5 www.netacad.com
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