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November 1996 - GCSE Computer Science 5-a-day

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November 1996

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1996Which piece of network hardware connects a LAN to another network such as the internet, directing data packets based on IP address?
  2. 2nd November 1996Describe what syntax highlighting is and how it helps a programmer.
  3. 3rd November 1996Convert the denary number 45 to hexadecimal.
  4. 4th November 1996What does the acronym CPU stand for?
  5. 5th November 1996State what the term malware means.
  6. 6th November 1996Trace 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).
  7. 7th November 1996An 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).
  8. 8th November 1996Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?
  9. 9th November 1996Which piece of UK legislation controls how organisations must store and use people's personal data?
  10. 10th November 1996Given x = 5 and y = 8, state whether x < y AND x > 0 evaluates to True or False.
  11. 11th November 1996State the value returned by LENGTH(word) if word stores the string 'Computer'.
  12. 12th November 1996Give one reason why RAM on its own is not enough, and a computer also needs secondary storage.
  13. 13th November 1996Explain the role of TCP when a large file is downloaded.
  14. 14th November 1996A password field requires between 6 and 12 characters. State two boundary data values that should be used to test this field.
  15. 15th November 1996A 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.
  16. 16th November 1996State one function carried out by the operating system of a computer.
  17. 17th November 1996In computational thinking, what is meant by the term 'decomposition'?
  18. 18th November 1996Given A = 1 and B = 1, state the value of A AND B.
  19. 19th November 1996State how many different values can be represented using 5 bits, and explain your reasoning.
  20. 20th November 1996Define a peer-to-peer network.
  21. 21st November 1996Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a compiler.
  22. 22nd November 1996Convert the denary number 5 to a 4-bit binary number.
  23. 23rd November 1996A CPU has a clock speed of 4.0 GHz. Calculate how many clock cycles it completes in 2 seconds.
  24. 24th November 1996A 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.
  25. 25th November 1996Write a loop in pseudocode that outputs every element of a 1D array named names of length 6.
  26. 26th November 1996A mono sound clip has a sample rate of 4000 Hz and lasts 2 seconds. Calculate the total number of samples taken.
  27. 27th November 1996State the type of program that is typically stored in ROM.
  28. 28th November 1996State one reason a small business might choose to use open source software instead of proprietary (closed source) software.
  29. 29th November 1996A FOR loop runs: total = 0, FOR i = 1 TO 4, total = total + i, NEXT i. State the value of total after the loop finishes.
  30. 30th November 1996State the key difference between a procedure and a function.