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IGCSE Cambridge (CIE) Computer Science 21 mins 7 questions

Exam Questions

Text, Sound & Images


Character Sets / Representing Sound / Representing Images

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Medium (1 question) /2

Hard (2 questions) /14

Total Marks /21

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Easy Questions
1 The Unicode character set is used to represent text that is typed into a computer.

One disadvantage of using the Unicode character set, instead of the ASCII character set,
is that the text stored takes up more storage space.

Give one reason why it takes up more storage space.

(1 mark)

2 Jack has an MP3 file stored on his computer

Tick (✓) to show which type of data is stored in an MP3 file.

Tick(✓)

Video

Sound

Image

(1 mark)

3 A student has a sound file that is too large to be stored on their external secondary
storage device. The student compresses the sound file to make the file size smaller.

The compression method used reduces the sample rate and the sample resolution of
the sound file.

State what is meant by the sample rate and sample resolution.

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(2 marks)

4 A logo is stored as a bitmap image.

Each square in the image represents one pixel, with three different colours being used
in the image.

State what is meant by the term image resolution.

(1 mark)

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Medium Questions
1 The Unicode character set is used to represent text that is typed into a computer.

Describe what is meant by a character set.

(2 marks)

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Hard Questions
1 (a) A student is creating a range of documents for a school project.

The student records a podcast about computer science.

Describe how an analogue sound wave is converted into digital form.

(3 marks)

(b) Tick (✓) one or more boxes on each row to identify the effect(s) that each change will
have on the sound file.

Change File size File size Accuracy Accuracy


increases decreases increases decreases

Duration changes
from 10 minutes to 20
minutes

Sample rate changes


from 44 kilohertz to 8
kilohertz

Bit depth changes


from 8 bits to 16 bits

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(3 marks)

2 Discuss the trade-offs between image quality and file size when choosing a bitmap
image's resolution and colour depth.

Provide examples to illustrate your answer.

(8 marks)

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