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Instructions
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• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
• Answer all questions.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside
the box around each page or on blank pages.
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this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
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A-level
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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0 1 . 1 Describe how a 12-bit unsigned binary integer such as 010010101110 can be
converted directly into hexadecimal.
The method you describe must not involve converting into decimal.
[2 marks]
0 1 . 2 State one reason why hexadecimal is often used in preference to binary.
[1 mark]
0 2 . 1 A data communications system uses parallel data transmission.
Describe how parallel data transmission works.
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0 2 . 2 State one advantage of serial data transmission over parallel data transmission.
[1 mark]
0 2 . 3 Shade one lozenge to indicate which of these statements about data communications
systems is false.
[1 mark]
A For a particular communications channel, the bit rate can be higher than
the baud rate.
B Latency is the rate at which signals on a wire or line can change.
C
The bandwidth of a transmission medium is the range of signal
frequencies that the medium can transmit without a significant reduction
in signal strength.
D The greater the bandwidth of a transmission medium the higher the bit
rate that can be achieved by a communication system using it.
0 2 . 4 State the purpose of the start bit in asynchronous serial transmission.
[1 mark]
0 2 . 5 State the purpose of the stop bit in asynchronous serial transmission.
[1 mark]
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[1 mark]
Figure 1
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0 0
0 1
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0 3 . 2 The truth table in Figure 1 demonstrates the correctness of an important law in
Boolean algebra.
State the name of the law.
[1 mark]
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0 3 . 3 Using the rules of Boolean algebra, simplify the following Boolean expression.
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A���
+ B ������
∙
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C + B ��������
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C�� + C ⋅ (A + A� ∙ (B + 1))
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[4 marks]
Working
Answer
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0 4 . 1 Define the term ‘system software’.
[1 mark]
0 4 . 2 The list below contains five types of software. Four of the types are examples of
system software.
Shade one lozenge to indicate which type of software is not system software.
[1 mark]
A Assemblers
B Bitmap image editors
C Interpreters
D Libraries
E Utility programs
0 4 . 3 Describe two functions of an operating system.
[2 marks]
Function 1
Function 2
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complement, with six bits before and four bits after the binary point.
Figure 2
1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
Convert the number in Figure 2 to decimal.
You should show your working.
[2 marks]
Answer
0 5 . 2 State two reasons why values stored using a floating point representation are
usually stored in normalised form.
[2 marks]
Reason 1
Reason 2
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Questions 05.3 box , 05.4 and 05.5 use a normalised floating point representation with an
8-bit mantissa and a 4-bit exponent, both stored using two’s complement.
0 5 . 3 Figure 3 shows a floating point representation of a number.
Figure 3
Calculate the decimal equivalent of the number.
Express your answer as a fraction or to 4 decimal places.
You should show your working.
[2 marks]
Answer
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8-bit mantissa and a 4-bit exponent, both stored using two’s complement.
0 5 . 4 Write the normalised floating point representation of the decimal value –23.25 in the
boxes below.
You should show your working.
[3 marks]
Answer
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Questions 05.3, 05.4 and 05.5 use a normalised floating point representation with an
8-bit mantissa and a 4-bit exponent, both stored using two’s complement.
0 5 . 5 Figure 4 shows the closest possible representation of the decimal number
–0.22558594 in this floating point system.
Figure 4
By converting this number back to decimal it can be seen that the actual value stored
is –0.2265625
Calculate the relative error that has occurred when representing –0.22558594
You should show your working.
Express your answer as a percentage to 2 decimal places.
[2 marks]
Answer
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box 0 6 Supermarkets often gather information about their customers and the purchases that
they make. This information can be analysed by the supermarket and other
companies for a range of purposes.
Some of the information is collected at the checkout, where the identity of the person
is read from a loyalty or payment card using RFID (radio-frequency identification) and
a barcode reader is used to identify the products being purchased.
By analysing the purchases that a shopper has made, it might be possible to identify
such things as whether the shopper has children, is pregnant, or lives in a house with
a garden. Other types of analysis might include the amount of money a customer
spends, the times that they choose to shop at and the differences in shopping habits
of different groups of shoppers.
Describe the principles of operation of the hardware used to collect the information
and discuss some of the ethical and legal issues that might arise as a result of the
capture and processing of this data.
In your answer you will be assessed on your ability to follow a line of reasoning to
produce a coherent, relevant and structured response.
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box 0 7 A network of zoos uses a relational database system to store information about the
animals that they have so that they can be matched up with animals at other zoos in a
breeding programme.
Figure 5 shows the structure of the relations in the database.
Figure 5
Zoo(ZooName, Town, Country)
AnimalLocation(AnimalID, ZooName, DateArrived, DateLeft)
Animal(AnimalID, IndividualName, Species, DateOfBirth, Sex)
Match(AnimalFemaleID, AnimalMaleID, DateOfMatch, Successful)
• The Zoo relation stores details of the zoos that participate in the breeding
programme. Each zoo is uniquely identified by its ZooName.
• The AnimalLocation relation identifies which zoos each animal has lived at. The
zoo that the animal is currently at can be identified because the DateLeft attribute is
set to 01/01/0001 to indicate that the animal has not left.
• The Animal relation stores details of the individual animals that are available to be
matched with other animals for breeding. Each animal is identified by a unique
number, the AnimalID. The individual name of the animal (eg ‘Timothy’) is also
stored, together with the species of the animal (eg ‘Red Panda’), its date of birth
and its sex (‘Male’ or ‘Female’).
• The Match relation stores details of matches that have been made. The attributes
AnimalFemaleID and AnimalMaleID refer to the AnimalID values of the two
matched animals in the Animal relation.
0 7 . 1 Shade one lozenge to identify which of the properties below does not have to be
true for a fully normalised database.
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A Each attribute in a relation is dependent on the primary key.
B Each attribute in a relation is dependent only on the primary
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