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February 1964 5-a-day

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February 1964

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1964Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
  2. 2nd February 1964Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
  3. 3rd February 1964A 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.
  4. 4th February 1964Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
  5. 5th February 1964Explain the role of TCP when a large file is downloaded.
  6. 6th February 1964A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
  7. 7th February 1964A table called bookings has fields bookingId, customerName and eventDate. Write an SQL statement that deletes the booking with bookingId 45.
  8. 8th February 1964State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
  9. 9th February 1964In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
  10. 10th February 1964Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
  11. 11th February 1964Convert the denary number 39 to an 8-bit binary number, showing your working.
  12. 12th February 1964Define a peer-to-peer network.
  13. 13th February 1964Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a compiler.
  14. 14th February 1964Convert the denary number 5 to a 4-bit binary number.
  15. 15th February 1964A CPU has a clock speed of 4.0 GHz. Calculate how many clock cycles it completes in 2 seconds.
  16. 16th February 1964A 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.
  17. 17th February 1964Write a loop in pseudocode that outputs every element of a 1D array named names of length 6.
  18. 18th February 1964A mono sound clip has a sample rate of 4000 Hz and lasts 2 seconds. Calculate the total number of samples taken.
  19. 19th February 1964State the type of program that is typically stored in ROM.
  20. 20th February 1964State one reason a small business might choose to use open source software instead of proprietary (closed source) software.
  21. 21st February 1964A FOR loop runs: total = 0, FOR i = 1 TO 4, total = total + i, NEXT i. State the value of total after the loop finishes.
  22. 22nd February 1964Give one specific way this code could be refined without changing what it does: a = 5, b = 3, c = a + b, PRINT c
  23. 23rd February 1964State the typical maximum capacity of a single-layer DVD.
  24. 24th February 1964A user reads the same email on a phone and a tablet, and deleting it on one deletes it on the other. Which protocol is in use and why?
  25. 25th February 1964State what is meant by a syntax error.
  26. 26th February 1964A 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.
  27. 27th February 1964What type of utility software reorganises files on a hard disk so fragmented parts are stored closer together?
  28. 28th February 1964Calculate the maximum number of comparisons required by a binary search on a sorted list of 512 items.
  29. 29th February 1964Given P = 0 and Q = 1, state the value of P OR Q.