Data representa on in computer systems 2 - answers
Q1a. 12 - 10 = 2
Q1b. 5 + 6 = 11
Q1c. 15 * 0 + 4 = 4
Q1d. 19 / 10 = 1.9
Q1e. 20 / 4 = 5 remainder 0 = 0
(1 mark per correct answer up to a maximum of 5 marks.)
Q2a. FALSE
Q2b. FALSE
Q2c. FALSE
Q2d. TRUE
Q2e. TRUE
(1 mark per correct answer up to a maximum of 5 marks.)
Q3a. Portable document format (1 mark)
Q3b. Possible answers:
- You don’t need the original so ware used to create the file to open and view it.
- Can be opened on any device with any opera ng system.
- ….. without a loss of forma ng.
- PDFs are smaller files than other commonly used document file types because pdf is a highly
compressed format.
- Can add electronic signatures for authen ca on.
- Can add security e.g. prevent edi ng or prin ng.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 2 marks.)
Q4a. Possible answers:
- Smaller storage space required for the images.
- Download mes reduced because the files are smaller.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 2 marks.)
Q4b. Possible answers:
- 3F3A5Y4E
- F3A3Y5E4
(Maximum 1 mark for a correct answer.)
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Q4c. Possible answers:
- 3B3A1Q5N
- 3B3AQ5N
- B3A3Q1N5
- B3A3QN5
(Maximum 1 mark for a correct answer.)
Q4d. Possible answers:
- Too many single instances of data
- May result in a file that is not efficiently compressed.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 2 marks.)
Q5a. Possible answers:
- Any reasonable example with an opcode and an operand e.g. SUB 23
- Opcode tells you what opera on to carry out on the data.
- Operand tells you what data to use with the opcode.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 3 marks.)
Q5b. Possible answers:
- A mnemonic is an easily remembered code for a pa ern of ones and zeros.
(Maximum 1 mark for a correct answer. Allow any similar full defini on.)
Q5c. Possible answers:
- Hard to remember what pa erns of ones and zeros mean.
- Hard to write programs using pa erns of ones and zeros.
- Easier to make mistakes if using ones and zeros.
- Harder to discuss code / fault find blocks of ones and zeros.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 2 marks.)
Q5d. Possible answers:
- A programmer writes source code using a programming language.
- A er the code has been translated into machine code, it is known as object code.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 2 marks.)
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Q6.
Image Sound Video Data
compression
DivX
gif
zip
ogg vorbis
H.264
png
mp3
tar
(1 mark per correct answer up to a maximum of 7 marks.)
Q7a. FC
Q7b. A3
Q7c. D1
Q8. Possible answers:
- Minimum of two reasonable examples e.g. dimensions of image, image resolu on,
ownership details, crea on date, last edited date, keywords for search engines, so ware
used etc.
- Data about data or the extra data stored with an image.
- … that allows an image be displayed properly.
- … or provides informa on which might be useful to a user of the image.
(1 mark per point made up to a maximum of 3 marks.)
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