Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science
November 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1959Give one example of erroneous test data for a field that only accepts whole numbers from 1 to 10.
- 2nd November 1959A 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.
- 3rd November 1959Each 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.
- 4th November 1959Which flowchart symbol shape is used to represent a decision point (e.g. a yes/no branch)?
- 5th November 1959State the two values a Boolean data type can hold.
- 6th November 1959State how many different values can be represented using 5 bits, and explain your reasoning.
- 7th November 1959Calculate the number of cables needed to connect 8 computers in a full mesh topology, where every computer connects directly to every other computer.
- 8th November 1959Explain the purpose of a breakpoint.
- 9th November 1959Convert the hexadecimal number 1A to denary.
- 10th November 1959Convert the denary number 156 to an 8 bit binary number.
- 11th November 1959Which type of malware can replicate itself and spread across a network without attaching to another program or needing a user to run it?
- 12th November 1959Explain why a running maximum should be initialised to the first element of the array rather than to 0.
- 13th November 1959An image uses a colour depth of 2 bits per pixel. Calculate the maximum number of different colours it can represent.
- 14th November 1959A 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.
- 15th November 1959Describe two negative consequences of throwing away old computer hardware instead of recycling it.
- 16th November 1959Write a function called isEven that takes one integer parameter, num, and returns True if num is even and False otherwise.
- 17th November 1959State the key difference between a procedure and a function.
- 18th November 1959A 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.
- 19th November 1959Name the four layers of the TCP/IP model in order from the one closest to the user.
- 20th November 1959Explain why iterative testing, carried out throughout development, tends to make errors cheaper to fix than relying only on final testing.
- 21st November 1959Give one advantage of a relational database over a flat-file database.
- 22nd November 1959Define the term 'interrupt' as used to describe a signal received by a CPU.
- 23rd November 1959An 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.
- 24th November 1959Evaluate X = NOT A AND B when A = 0 and B = 1.
- 25th November 1959Convert the hexadecimal number 3F to denary.
- 26th November 1959Give one advantage of a star topology compared with a mesh topology.
- 27th November 1959A 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.
- 28th November 1959Add the 8-bit binary numbers 00101101 and 00010011, giving your answer as an 8-bit binary number.
- 29th November 1959State the three stages of the fetch-decode-execute cycle in the order they occur.
- 30th November 1959State one weakness of a simple shift cipher compared to modern encryption methods used on networks.