Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science
August 1958 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1958
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1958State the layer that IP operates in, and describe its job.
- 2nd August 1958Give one example of erroneous test data for a field that only accepts whole numbers from 1 to 10.
- 3rd August 1958A table called books has fields bookId, title, authorId and copiesAvailable. Write an SQL statement that selects the title of every book with more than 2 copies available.
- 4th August 1958Each pair from the previous question is stored using 2 bytes. Calculate the compression ratio achieved, given the uncompressed row (1 byte per pixel) uses 8 bytes.
- 5th August 1958Which flowchart symbol shape is used to represent a decision point (e.g. a yes/no branch)?
- 6th August 1958State the two values a Boolean data type can hold.
- 7th August 1958State how many different values can be represented using 5 bits, and explain your reasoning.
- 8th August 1958Calculate the number of cables needed to connect 8 computers in a full mesh topology, where every computer connects directly to every other computer.
- 9th August 1958Describe what syntax highlighting is and how it helps a programmer.
- 10th August 1958Convert the hexadecimal number 1A to denary.
- 11th August 1958Convert the denary number 156 to an 8 bit binary number.
- 12th August 1958Which type of malware can replicate itself and spread across a network without attaching to another program or needing a user to run it?
- 13th August 1958Trace this algorithm with data = [4, 9, 2, 9, 7] and state the final output. total = 0; count = 0; for i = 0 to 4: if data[i] > 5 then total = total + data[i] and count = count + 1; next i; print(total, count).
- 14th August 1958An image uses a colour depth of 2 bits per pixel. Calculate the maximum number of different colours it can represent.
- 15th August 1958A CPU's cache has a hit rate of 80%. During a task the CPU makes 4000 requests for data. Calculate the number of cache hits and cache misses.
- 16th August 1958Describe two negative consequences of throwing away old computer hardware instead of recycling it.
- 17th August 1958Write a function called isEven that takes one integer parameter, num, and returns True if num is even and False otherwise.
- 18th August 1958State the key difference between a procedure and a function.
- 19th August 1958A company backs up its files onto magnetic tape cartridges, each with a capacity of 3 TB. The company needs to back up 20 TB of data. Calculate the minimum number of cartridges needed.
- 20th August 1958Explain the role of TCP when a large file is downloaded.
- 21st August 1958Explain why iterative testing, carried out throughout development, tends to make errors cheaper to fix than relying only on final testing.
- 22nd August 1958Give one advantage of a relational database over a flat-file database.
- 23rd August 1958Define the term 'interrupt' as used to describe a signal received by a CPU.
- 24th August 1958An array called items contains [12, 45, 7, 30, 19] at indices 0 to 4. Describe how a linear search would locate the value 30, stating the number of comparisons needed.
- 25th August 1958Evaluate X = NOT A AND B when A = 0 and B = 1.
- 26th August 1958Convert the hexadecimal number 3F to denary.
- 27th August 1958Give one advantage of a star topology compared with a mesh topology.
- 28th August 1958Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a compiler.
- 29th August 1958Add the 8-bit binary numbers 00101101 and 00010011, giving your answer as an 8-bit binary number.
- 30th August 1958State the three stages of the fetch-decode-execute cycle in the order they occur.
- 31st August 1958State one weakness of a simple shift cipher compared to modern encryption methods used on networks.