Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science
December 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1960State the pseudocode operator commonly used to join (concatenate) two strings, then show how it joins 'Rev' and 'ision' to produce 'Revision'.
- 2nd December 1960Give one example of an optical secondary storage device.
- 3rd December 1960Define the term protocol.
- 4th December 1960State the term used for realistic data that a program would be expected to handle during normal use.
- 5th December 1960Define the term 'primary key' as used in a database table.
- 6th December 1960State the difference between lossy and lossless compression.
- 7th December 1960State the condition that must be met before a binary search can be used on an array.
- 8th December 1960A logic circuit has inputs C and D. C feeds into a NOT gate; the output of the NOT gate and D feed into an OR gate, giving output Y. Write the Boolean expression for Y and state its value when C = 1 and D = 0.
- 9th December 1960Convert the 8-bit binary number 10110100 directly to hexadecimal by splitting it into nibbles.
- 10th December 1960Which piece of network hardware connects a LAN to another network such as the internet, directing data packets based on IP address?
- 11th December 1960Explain the purpose of a breakpoint.
- 12th December 1960Convert the denary number 45 to hexadecimal.
- 13th December 1960What does the acronym CPU stand for?
- 14th December 1960State what the term malware means.
- 15th December 1960Explain why a running maximum should be initialised to the first element of the array rather than to 0.
- 16th December 1960An 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).
- 17th December 1960Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
- 18th December 1960Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
- 19th December 1960Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
- 20th December 1960A function is defined as: FUNCTION addTax(price) RETURN price x 1.2 ENDFUNCTION. Another line of code runs: total <- addTax(20) + addTax(30). Trace both function calls and state the final value of total.
- 21st December 1960Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
- 22nd December 1960Name the four layers of the TCP/IP model in order from the one closest to the user.
- 23rd December 1960A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
- 24th December 1960A table called staff has fields staffId, name, department and salary, storing these records: staffId | name | department | salary, 1 | Ben | Sales | 24000, 2 | Chloe | IT | 31000, 3 | Dan | Sales | 27000. State which staffId(s) would be returned by: SELECT staffId FROM staff WHERE department = 'Sales' AND salary > 25000;
- 25th December 1960State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
- 26th December 1960In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
- 27th December 1960Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
- 28th December 1960Convert the 8-bit binary number 01011010 to denary.
- 29th December 1960Define a peer-to-peer network.
- 30th December 1960A 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.
- 31st December 1960Convert the denary number 5 to a 4-bit binary number.