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October 1992 - GCSE Computer Science 5-a-day

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October 1992

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  1. 1st October 1992State the most appropriate data type for storing a person's shoe size if only whole sizes (e.g. 7, 8, 9) are allowed.
  2. 2nd October 1992State the key difference between a procedure and a function.
  3. 3rd October 1992Give one example of an optical secondary storage device.
  4. 4th October 1992Give two reasons why network communication is divided into layers.
  5. 5th October 1992State the term used for realistic data that a program would be expected to handle during normal use.
  6. 6th October 1992Give one advantage of a relational database over a flat-file database.
  7. 7th October 1992State the difference between lossy and lossless compression.
  8. 8th October 1992State the condition that must be met before a binary search can be used on an array.
  9. 9th October 1992A 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.
  10. 10th October 1992Convert the hexadecimal number 3F to denary.
  11. 11th October 1992Which piece of network hardware connects a LAN to another network such as the internet, directing data packets based on IP address?
  12. 12th October 1992Explain why an interpreter is often preferred while a program is being written.
  13. 13th October 1992Convert the denary number 45 to hexadecimal.
  14. 14th October 1992What does the acronym CPU stand for?
  15. 15th October 1992State what the term malware means.
  16. 16th October 1992A 2D array grid is declared as grid[4][6]. State how many rows and columns it has and how many elements it holds in total.
  17. 17th October 1992An 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).
  18. 18th October 1992Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
  19. 19th October 1992Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
  20. 20th October 1992Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
  21. 21st October 1992A 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.
  22. 22nd October 1992Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
  23. 23rd October 1992State the layer that IP operates in, and describe its job.
  24. 24th October 1992A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
  25. 25th October 1992A table called bookings has fields bookingId, customerName and eventDate. Write an SQL statement that deletes the booking with bookingId 45.
  26. 26th October 1992State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
  27. 27th October 1992In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
  28. 28th October 1992Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
  29. 29th October 1992Convert the denary number 39 to an 8-bit binary number, showing your working.
  30. 30th October 1992Define a peer-to-peer network.
  31. 31st October 1992Describe what syntax highlighting is and how it helps a programmer.