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3 Data Storage and Compression


Question Paper

Course CIEIGCSE Computer Science

Section 1.Data Representation

Topic 1.3 Data Storage and Compression

Topic Medium

Time allowed: 30

Score: /19

Percentage: /100

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Question 1

A Company has a website that is stored on a web server.

Thewebsitehosts videos that users can stream. The Company uploads new videos to the website.

i)

Thevideos are compresse before they are uploaded to the website.

Tick (✓) one box to show which statement is a benefit of compressing thevideos.

ii)

Givetwo methods ofcompression thatcouldbeusedtocompress thevideos.

1.................................................................

2 ..................................................................

[2]
[3 marks]

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Question 2

A music company has a website that allows users to stream music. The Music is stored in sound files.

The sound files are compressed using lossless compression.

i)

Describe how the sound files files are compressed using lossless compression.

[4]

ii)

Stateonereason why the music company would compress the sound files using lossless,rather than lossy,

compression.

[1]

iii)

Give Benefit,to the user,of the music company compressingthesoundfiles.

[1]

iv)

Give One Drawback Of The Music company using lossless, rather than lossy, compression for the sound files.

[2]

[3 marks]

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Question 3

Tina is creating a website for charity events.Sheuses HTML to create the website.

Tina uses a microphone to record welcome message for her website.

i)

Shewants to compress therecordingtomakesurethatthefileis as small as possible for the website.

Identify which type of compression she should use & describe how this would compress the file for the website.

Type Of Compression .....................................................................

Description

[4]

ii)

Give Two Benefits of compressing the file for the website.

Benefit1......................................................................................

Benefit2 ......................................................................................

[2]

[6 marks]

Question 4

Computer Memories are measured in terms of the number of bytes.

(i)

What Is meant by the term byte?

[1]

(ii)

The Number Of Bytes in a Gigabyte Can be written as 2

What Is the value of x?

[1]

[4 marks
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