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November 1976 5-a-day

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November 1976

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1976Write the pseudocode header and body for a function called isAdult that takes one integer parameter called age and returns True if age is 18 or over.
  2. 2nd November 1976Give one example of an optical secondary storage device.
  3. 3rd November 1976Explain the role of TCP when a large file is downloaded.
  4. 4th November 1976State the term used for realistic data that a program would be expected to handle during normal use.
  5. 5th November 1976State what a foreign key is used for.
  6. 6th November 1976State the difference between lossy and lossless compression.
  7. 7th November 1976State the condition that must be met before a binary search can be used on an array.
  8. 8th November 1976A 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.
  9. 9th November 1976A pseudocode algorithm is: count <- 0, x <- 10, WHILE x > 0, count <- count + 1, x <- x - 3, ENDWHILE, OUTPUT count. Complete a trace table for x and count, laid out as x | count, then state the value output.
  10. 10th November 1976Which piece of network hardware connects a LAN to another network such as the internet, directing data packets based on IP address?
  11. 11th November 1976Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a compiler.
  12. 12th November 1976Convert the denary number 45 to hexadecimal.
  13. 13th November 1976What does the acronym CPU stand for?
  14. 14th November 1976State what the term malware means.
  15. 15th November 1976Write a loop in pseudocode that outputs every element of a 1D array named names of length 6.
  16. 16th November 1976An 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).
  17. 17th November 1976Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
  18. 18th November 1976Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
  19. 19th November 1976Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
  20. 20th November 1976State the value returned by LENGTH(word) if word stores the string 'Computer'.
  21. 21st November 1976Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
  22. 22nd November 1976A 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?
  23. 23rd November 1976A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
  24. 24th November 1976A 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.
  25. 25th November 1976State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
  26. 26th November 1976In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
  27. 27th November 1976Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
  28. 28th November 1976State how many different values can be represented using 5 bits, and explain your reasoning.
  29. 29th November 1976Define a peer-to-peer network.
  30. 30th November 1976Name the translator used for assembly language and describe how it differs from a compiler.