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Question Answer Marks

1(a) 1 mark for each validation type 4

Field Validation description Validation type

Name A name must be entered Presence check

Date of birth Entered as dd/mm/yyyy Format check

Telephone A limit of 15 characters can be

Length check
number entered

Experience Only values between 1 and 5

Range check
level can be entered

1(b)(i) Verification // by example 1

1(b)(ii) 1 mark per bullet point: 2

• Parity
• Checksum

Question Answer Marks

2(a) 1 mark per pair of outputs (shaded) 4

A B C Working space Q

0 0 0 0

0 0 1 1

0 1 0 1

0 1 1 1

1 0 0 1

1 0 1 1

1 1 0 1

1 1 1 1

2(b) 1 mark for all four: 1

NOT
NAND
OR
XOR

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3(a) 1 mark per shaded section 5

Output
Instruction
Address Memory Address
IX ACC

180 181 182 183 184 185 186

0 41 71 40 70 43 69

75 2

76 71

77

78

79 G

80 1

81

76 41

77

78

79 )

80 0

81

76 0

77

78

82

3(b) 1 mark per bullet point max 2 marks 2

• Direct
• Indirect
• Relative

3(c)(i) 1110 1010 1

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3(c)(ii) EA 1

3(c)(iii) –39 1

3(d) 1 mark for each correctly completed item 3

MAR ← [PC]
PC ← [PC] + 1
MDR ← [[MAR]]
CIR ← [MDR]

Question Answer Marks

4(a)(i) 1 mark per bullet point to max 3 3

• Install/manage device drivers

• Control of hardware usage by processes // allocation of devices to
processes // inter process communication
• Device detection
• Power Management
• Keep track of device status (free or busy)
• Buffer management

4(a)(ii) 1 mark per bullet point to max 3 3

• Deals with interrupts

• Deal with run time errors generated by software
• Deal with hardware faults
• Error diagnostic messages
• Deadlock detection and recovery
• Safe-mode boot-up routines
• System shutdown
• Saves system restore points

4(a)(iii) 1 mark per bullet point to max 2 2

• Process / task/resource management

• Main memory management
• File/secondary storage management
• Security management
• Provision of a software platform/environment on which other programs
can be run
• Interrupt handling
• Provision of a user interface

NOT
• Peripheral/hardware/device management
• Error detection and recovery management

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4(b)(i) 1 mark for first 3 rows 2

1 mark for last 3 rows

Program Utility Not utility

Language translator 

Backup 

Integrated Development

Environment (IDE)

Graphics 

Defragmenter 

Spreadsheet 

4(b)(ii) 1 mark per bullet point to max 2 2

e.g.
• Virus checker // anti-malware
• Disk formatter
• Disk contents analysis/disk repair
• System clean-up
• File compression
• Firewall
• Encryption

Question Answer Marks

5(a) 1 mark for each bullet point to max 2 2

• $first_name
• $last_name
• $result

5(b) 1 mark for all 3 1

06
07
13

5(c) 1 mark per bullet point 2

• Concatenate the contents of $first_name and $last_name with a

space in the middle...
• …and store in $result

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6(a) 1 mark per bullet point 3

• C in correct position
• B and D in correct positions
• A in correct position

1 C // The client-side code is processed

2 The form data is transmitted to the web server

3 B // The server-side code is processed

4 D // The web server produces the HTML code

5 The HTML code is returned to the browser

6 A // The browser displays the web page

6(b) 1 mark per bullet point for justification to max 3 3

• IP address is (physical) address of the server

• A domain name is a memorable form for an IP address
• cambridgeinternational.org is the domain name
• An example of an IP address is 198.162.2.1
• Each domain name is linked to an IP address
• A Domain Name Server/Service (DNS) is used to translate a domain
name into its corresponding IP address
• Domain name does not change but IP address could change (dynamic)
• IP address can be used to address server directly,
• The domain name needs translation before server can be assessed

Question Answer Marks

7(a) 1 mark per bullet point to max 3 3

• The program will not run if there are any errors

• The program must be recompiled after every change // cannot correct
errors in real-time
• Part-programs cannot be tested
• One error may result in other false errors being reported

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7(b) 1 mark per bullet point, max 2 marks per licence 4

Open Source
• The (source) code is distributed with the software
• users can modify the software
• The software is (usually) free of cost
• Users must redistribute the modified software under the same terms

Commercial
• The software is (usually) purchased for a cost
• A licence defines how it can be used
• The source code is not distributed // users cannot change the software

7(c) 1 mark per bullet point to max 3 3

e.g.
• To identify what employees can do
• To identify what employees cannot do
• To identify the repercussions of employees performing activities they
should not
• To identify the company's/employee's responsibilities
• To identify the company's values/missions
• To identify what behaviour/events/activities can be measured against
• To identify how they will comply with legislation

Question Answer Marks

8(a) 1 mark for each correct join 2

8(b) 1 mark per bullet point 4

• EmployeeID is the Primary Key in EMPLOYEE

• …links to EmployeeID which is the Foreign Key in PROJECTTEAM
• ProjectID is the Primary Key in PROJECT
• …links to ProjectID which is the Foreign Key in PROJECTTEAM

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8(c) 1 mark per bullet point 2

• ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE

• ADD Gender CHAR(1)

Example:
ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE
ADD Gender CHAR(1);

8(d) 1 mark per bullet point 3

• SELECT FirstName, LastName, Salary
• FROM EMPLOYEE
• WHERE Salary > 17 500

Example:
SELECT FirstName, LastName, Salary
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE Salary > 17 500;

Question Answer Marks

9(a)(i) Sampling rate 1

9(a)(ii) Sampling resolution // bit depth 1

9(b) 1 mark per bullet point, max 2 for each 4

Spatial Redundancy
• Intra-frame // Redundancy within a frame
• Pixels in a single video frame have the same value
• A description of an appropriate compression method e.g. RLE

Temporal Redundancy
• Inter-frame // Redundancy between frames
• Pixels in a sequence of consecutive video frames have the same
value in the same location
• …records only the differences between the frames

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