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Y1 CS First Term Exam 2024

The document discusses various aspects of a library's system, including book checkout, website features, and video file size reduction methods. It also covers topics like lossless compression for photos, binary and hexadecimal conversions, and data transmission methods using USB connections. Additionally, it touches on encryption concepts and error-checking methods in data transmission.

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Y1 CS First Term Exam 2024

The document discusses various aspects of a library's system, including book checkout, website features, and video file size reduction methods. It also covers topics like lossless compression for photos, binary and hexadecimal conversions, and data transmission methods using USB connections. Additionally, it touches on encryption concepts and error-checking methods in data transmission.

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1 Alibrary has a system that allows customers to check out the books that they want to borrow. (©) The library has a website that customers can use to search for a book. (@) The website has a background colour with the hexadecimal colour code #F92A10 The colour code is stored in two 12-bit binary registers. Show how the colour code would be stored in the registers. ¢ we (TITAN Tio 6 Ty Tolo Tf lo J ao (T Toll Talo ig 71 1s Ts TOTO {6} (ii) Videos on the library website show customers which books the library will soon have in ‘The library wants the file size of a video to be as small as possible. Identify and describe a method the library could use to reduce the file size of a video as. Carla’s computer has a USB port. Carla uses the USB port to connect her mobile device to her computer, to transfer her photos. Carla wants to reduce the file size of the photos she has transferred to her computer. She does not want the quality of the photos to be reduced, so she uses lossless compression. Describe how lossless compression reduces the file size of the photos. 9 Programs can be written in a low-level language. {d) A low-level language needs to be converted to binary before it can be processed by @ __ computer. (i) Give the 8-bit binary value of the two denary values: 180 201 ... Working space (ii) Give the 12-bit binary value of the denary value 250. Working space (iil) Binary can be represented as hexadecimal to make it easier to read. Give the hexadecimal values of the 8-bit binary values: 10010011 .. 00011101 .. (a) Give the denary value of each of the three 12-bit binary values. (i) 000000001100 (ii) 000011000110 010011000001 Working space (b) 12-bit binary values can also be represented as hexadecimal values. Give the hexadecimal value of the 12-bit binary value. 000011101001 1 Tina is creating a website for charity events. She uses HTML to create the website. (a) State what is meant by HTML. (J (ii) The hexadecimal colour code #43B7F0 is stored in three 8-bit registers. Give the 8-bit binary values for each part of the hexadecimal code. a3 | B7 | ro |’ | [6] (c) Tina uses a microphone to record a welcome message for her website. {i) State whether the microphone is an input or output device. (ii) She wants to compress the recording to make sure that the file is as small as possible for the website. Identify which type of compression she should use and describe how this would compress the file for the website. Type of compression .. Description iii) Give two benefits of compressing the file for the website. Benefit 1 . Benefit 2 . Arjun uses a scanner to create digital versions of some printed documents. The scanner is attached to his computer using a USB connection. (a) Tick (V) to show if the USB connection uses Parallel or Serial data transmission. Describe your chosen method of data transmission, Parallel Serial Description 9) Give three benefits of a USB connection. Benefit 1 ... Benefit 2 Benefit 3 ... Elsa writes a paragraph jin an examination about encryption. There are several terms missing from the paragraph. Complete the paragraph using-the list of given terms. Not all terms may need to be used, Some terms may be used more than once. algorithm alphanumeric cookie cypher key padlock plain word processed ee ee ew we The data is encrypted using a . This is an that is used to scramble the data. The data before ENCTYPtION iS KNOWN AS ......-sessccescecsesseeneeneenecnesneeseeseescencenenteneeeeneeneanees text. When the data has been Encrypted it is KNOWN AS .......:seceesesceseeseesneeteceenenteneeneeneensenseneeneeneeneenenee text. To read the encrypted data it needs to be Gecrypted USING a .......eeeeeeeeseeeeeesceteneeneeeeesseensateneneeneneasareneneneatens e 5] Four 7-bit binary values are transmitted from one computer to another. A parity bit was added to each binary value creating 8-bit binary values. All the binary values have been transmitted correctly. (a) Tick (“) to show whether an Even or an Odd parity check“has been used for each binary value. 8-bit binary value vr A 10000001 10000010 00101001 00101000 ‘b) Aparity check may not always detect errors that have occurred in.data transmission. State why a parity check may not detect data transmission errors. c) Give one other error checking method that could be used to check for errors in data transmission. z ‘ To Julia inputs personal data into her computer. j (c) Julia uses a USB connection to transfer data onto her USB flash memory drive. z W One benefit of using a USB connection is that it is a universal connection. State two other benefits of using a USB connection. BBONORE oo soe sas coscct snceocnsassccsonnstnedoncnteceeoetsenieecnsstussouedobesnuscotercnssinsstvdocaussnreteseetsra¥ttnsacesaso (li) Identify the type of data transmission used in a USB connection. Four 7-bit binary values are transmitted from one computer to another. A parity bit is added to each binary value creating 8-bit binary values. All the binary values are transmitted and received correctly. {a) Identify whether each 8-bit binary value has been sent using odd or even parity by writing odd or even in the type of parity column. 8-bit binary value ‘Type of parity 01100100 10010001 00000011 40110010 (b) An error may not be detected when using a parity check. Identify why an error may not be detected. (4) ‘¢) The data is sent using parallel half-duplex data transmission. (i) Describe how data is sent using parallel half-duplex data transmission. (il) State two drawbacks of using parallel data transmission. Drawback 1 ... a]

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