Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science
August 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1956State what the term malware means.
- 2nd August 1956Explain why a running maximum should be initialised to the first element of the array rather than to 0.
- 3rd August 1956An uncompressed file is 6000 KB. After lossless compression it is 1500 KB. Calculate the compression ratio in the form n:1 (original size : compressed size).
- 4th August 1956Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
- 5th August 1956Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
- 6th August 1956Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
- 7th August 1956A programmer wants any syntax error in their program to be reported before the program starts running at all. State whether a compiler or an interpreter behaves this way, and explain why.
- 8th August 1956Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
- 9th August 1956Name the four layers of the TCP/IP model in order from the one closest to the user.
- 10th August 1956A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
- 11th August 1956A table called bookings has fields bookingId, customerName and eventDate. Write an SQL statement that deletes the booking with bookingId 45.
- 12th August 1956State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
- 13th August 1956In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
- 14th August 1956Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
- 15th August 1956Convert the denary number 39 to an 8-bit binary number, showing your working.
- 16th August 1956Define a peer-to-peer network.
- 17th August 1956A program compiles and runs but always outputs an average that is too small. State the type of error and explain why the translator did not report it.
- 18th August 1956Convert the denary number 5 to a 4-bit binary number.
- 19th August 1956A CPU has a clock speed of 4.0 GHz. Calculate how many clock cycles it completes in 2 seconds.
- 20th August 1956A simple cipher shifts every letter 2 places forward in the alphabet, wrapping around so Y becomes A and Z becomes B. Encrypt the plaintext CAT using this cipher.
- 21st August 1956An array named temps holds 12 values. State the index of the first item and the index of the last item.
- 22nd August 1956A mono sound clip has a sample rate of 4000 Hz and lasts 2 seconds. Calculate the total number of samples taken.
- 23rd August 1956State the type of program that is typically stored in ROM.
- 24th August 1956State one reason a small business might choose to use open source software instead of proprietary (closed source) software.
- 25th August 1956A FOR loop runs: total = 0, FOR i = 1 TO 4, total = total + i, NEXT i. State the value of total after the loop finishes.
- 26th August 1956Give one specific way this code could be refined without changing what it does: a = 5, b = 3, c = a + b, PRINT c
- 27th August 1956State the typical maximum capacity of a single-layer DVD.
- 28th August 1956State the difference between HTTP and HTTPS, and give one situation where HTTPS is essential.
- 29th August 1956State what is meant by a syntax error.
- 30th August 1956A table called members has fields memberId, firstName, lastName and joinYear. Write an SQL statement that adds a new record with memberId 12, firstName 'Priya', lastName 'Shah' and joinYear 2026.
- 31st August 1956What type of utility software reorganises files on a hard disk so fragmented parts are stored closer together?