Daily Practice · GCSE Computer Science

Daily Practice - GCSE Computer Science

7th November 1997

5 questions · GCSE · 123 questions in this band

1
Programming Practice: Writing and Refining Programs
Give one specific way this code could be refined without changing what it does: a = 5, b = 3, c = a + b, PRINT c
2
SQL and Data Handling
A 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;
3
Trace Tables and Binary/Hex Conversions
Convert the hexadecimal number 3F to denary.
4
Systems Architecture
Which CPU register holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched?
5
Memory and Primary Storage
Which of RAM and ROM is volatile, meaning its contents are lost when the power is removed?

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