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November 1962 5-a-day

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November 1962

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  1. 1st November 1962Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
  2. 2nd November 1962Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
  3. 3rd November 1962Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
  4. 4th November 1962A 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.
  5. 5th November 1962Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
  6. 6th November 1962State the difference between HTTP and HTTPS, and give one situation where HTTPS is essential.
  7. 7th November 1962A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
  8. 8th November 1962A table called bookings has fields bookingId, customerName and eventDate. Write an SQL statement that deletes the booking with bookingId 45.
  9. 9th November 1962State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
  10. 10th November 1962In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
  11. 11th November 1962Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
  12. 12th November 1962Convert the denary number 39 to an 8-bit binary number, showing your working.
  13. 13th November 1962Define a peer-to-peer network.
  14. 14th November 1962State why a program written in a high level language must be translated.
  15. 15th November 1962Convert the denary number 5 to a 4-bit binary number.
  16. 16th November 1962A CPU has a clock speed of 4.0 GHz. Calculate how many clock cycles it completes in 2 seconds.
  17. 17th November 1962A 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.
  18. 18th November 1962Describe what a nested loop does when it processes a 2D array.
  19. 19th November 1962A mono sound clip has a sample rate of 4000 Hz and lasts 2 seconds. Calculate the total number of samples taken.
  20. 20th November 1962State the type of program that is typically stored in ROM.
  21. 21st November 1962State one reason a small business might choose to use open source software instead of proprietary (closed source) software.
  22. 22nd November 1962A FOR loop runs: total = 0, FOR i = 1 TO 4, total = total + i, NEXT i. State the value of total after the loop finishes.
  23. 23rd November 1962Give one specific way this code could be refined without changing what it does: a = 5, b = 3, c = a + b, PRINT c
  24. 24th November 1962State the typical maximum capacity of a single-layer DVD.
  25. 25th November 1962Give two reasons why network communication is divided into layers.
  26. 26th November 1962State what is meant by a syntax error.
  27. 27th November 1962A 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.
  28. 28th November 1962What type of utility software reorganises files on a hard disk so fragmented parts are stored closer together?
  29. 29th November 1962Calculate the maximum number of comparisons required by a binary search on a sorted list of 512 items.
  30. 30th November 1962Given P = 0 and Q = 1, state the value of P OR Q.