COMPUTER SCIENCE PAPER 1 AS LEVEL

Name: _____________________

Date: ______________________

Time: 1hr 30min

Year: 11

Instructions
● Attempt all the questions.
● Make sure that your work is neat and clean.
● Read all the questions careful

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1. Anya scans an image into her computer for a school project.

(a) The scanned image is a bitmapped image.

i. Complete the following table to describe the two terms about graphics.
Term Description

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ii. The image is scanned with an image resolution of 1024 × 512 pixels, and a colour depth
of 8 bits per pixel. Calculate an estimate for the file size, giving your answer in
mebibytes. Show your working.
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(b) The image is compressed using lossless compression.

Identify one method of lossless compression that can be used to compress the image and

describe how the method will reduce the file size.

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(c) One of the colours used in the image has the hexadecimal colour code:

#FC238A

FC is the amount of red, 23 is the amount of green and 8A is the amount of blue in the colour.

i. Convert the hexadecimal code FC into denary.

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ii. The amount of green in binary is 00100011. This has the denary number 15 added to

it to create a second colour.

Add the denary number 15 to the binary number 00100011 and give your answer

binary.

Perform the addition in binary. Show your working.

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iii. Hexadecimal 23 in two’s complement representation is 00100011. The denary

number 10 needs to be subtracted from this value. Subtract the denary number 10

from the two’s complement representation 00100011. Give your answer in binary.

Show your working. Working

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2. Computers store data in binary form.
(a) State the difference between a tebibyte and a terabyte.

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(b) Convert the signed denary value –100 into an 8-bit two’s complement binary integer.

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(c) Convert the denary number 251 into hexadecimal. Show your working. Working

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(d) Add the following unsigned binary integers.

01010000
+00111110
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3. Convert the denary numbers 127 and 12 to 8-bit binary and then perform the subtraction
12 − 127 in binary.

Show your working.

127 in binary

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12 in binary

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12 − 127 in binary

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4. Sound samples are recorded and saved in a file.

(i) State what is meant by sampling rate.

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(ii) Explain the effect of increasing the sampling resolution on the sound file.

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iii. A teacher is writing examination papers on a laptop computer. The computer is connected

to the internet. The teacher is concerned about the security and privacy of the papers.

(a)State the difference between the security of data and the privacy of data.

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5. Draw one line from each image representation term to its correct definition.

Term Definition

The number of pixels wide by the number of

Pixel
pixels high

The smallest identifiable component of an

Bit depth image

Stores data about the image file, e.g. file

Image resolution format, number of bits per pixel, file size

The number of bits used to represent each

File header colour

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6. A computer can represent numerical data in different forms. Complete the table by
writing the answer to each statement.

Statement Answer
The hexadecimal value 11 represented in
denary
The smallest denary number that can be
represented by an unsigned 8-bit binary
integer
The denary number 87 represented in
Binary Coded Decimal (BCD)

The denary number 240 represented in

hexadecimal
The denary number –20 represented in 8-
bit two’s complement binary

Working space

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7. Yvette runs a company that books walking holidays for groups of people. She has a

website that customers use to book the holidays. (a) The website has a URL and an IPv6

address.

(a) Describe, using an example, the format of an IPv6 address.

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(b) An IP address can be static or dynamic. Describe static and dynamic IP addresses.

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(c) Yvette’s company has a LAN (Local Area Network) that has hybrid topology.

i. Describe the characteristics of a LAN.

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ii. The LAN has a range of different topologies. One subnetwork connects four

computers and one server set up as a star topology. Describe how packets are transmitted

between two of the computers in this subnetwork.

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(d) The LAN has both wired and wireless connections.

i. Ethernet cables connect the computers to the server. Identify three other hardware

components that might be used to set up the LAN.

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ii. Describe how Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)

manages collisions during data transmission.

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8. A company uses cloud computing.

(a) Define cloud computing.

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(b) State what is meant by a public cloud and a private cloud.

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(c) Give two benefits and one drawback of using cloud computing.

Benefit 1

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