Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science
May 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1971State what is meant by a syntax error.
- 2nd May 1971Define the term 'primary key' as used in a database table.
- 3rd May 1971What type of utility software reorganises files on a hard disk so fragmented parts are stored closer together?
- 4th May 1971Calculate the maximum number of comparisons required by a binary search on a sorted list of 512 items.
- 5th May 1971Given P = 0 and Q = 1, state the value of P OR Q.
- 6th May 1971Convert the 8-bit binary number 10110100 directly to hexadecimal by splitting it into nibbles.
- 7th May 1971A network administrator is connecting 10 computers in a server room. Calculate the number of cables needed for a full mesh topology, and state the number needed for a star topology with one central switch.
- 8th May 1971Describe what syntax highlighting is and how it helps a programmer.
- 9th May 1971Convert the 4-bit binary number 1101 to denary.
- 10th May 1971Two CPUs are compared for a task optimised for multiple cores: CPU A has 2 cores at 4.2 GHz; CPU B has 6 cores at 3.0 GHz. Explain which CPU is likely to perform better for this task.
- 11th May 1971State why an organisation might employ penetration testers to test its network.
- 12th May 1971Trace 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).
- 13th May 1971State one example of a file format that commonly uses lossy compression.
- 14th May 1971State how many bits are in one byte, and how many bytes are in one kibibyte (KiB).
- 15th May 1971State whether the source code of proprietary (closed source) software is normally available for the public to view.
- 16th May 1971Write one line of pseudocode that converts the string stored in heightInput into a real number and stores it in a variable called height.
- 17th May 1971A 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.
- 18th May 1971Order these units of data from smallest to largest: megabyte, byte, gigabyte, kilobyte.
- 19th May 1971Explain the role of TCP when a large file is downloaded.
- 20th May 1971Give one example of erroneous test data for a field that only accepts whole numbers from 1 to 10.
- 21st May 1971A 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;
- 22nd May 1971Each 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.
- 23rd May 1971Which flowchart symbol shape is used to represent a decision point (e.g. a yes/no branch)?
- 24th May 1971State the two values a Boolean data type can hold.
- 25th May 1971Convert the 8-bit binary number 01011010 to denary.
- 26th May 1971Calculate the number of cables needed to connect 8 computers in a full mesh topology, where every computer connects directly to every other computer.
- 27th May 1971Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a compiler.
- 28th May 1971Convert the hexadecimal number 1A to denary.
- 29th May 1971Convert the denary number 156 to an 8 bit binary number.
- 30th May 1971Which type of malware can replicate itself and spread across a network without attaching to another program or needing a user to run it?
- 31st May 1971Write a loop in pseudocode that outputs every element of a 1D array named names of length 6.