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AQA MERGED QUESTION PAPER AND MARK SCHEME COMPUTER SCIENCE PAPER 2-7517/2 FOR JUNE 2024
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0 1 Anti-virus software and user training are measures that can be used to reduce the threat posed by viruses.
Describe four other measures that can be used to reduce the threat posed by viruses. [4 marks]
Do not write outside the 0 2. (^1) A digital camera takes photographs that are 4000 pixels wide by 3000 pixels tall and^ box can contain up to 16 777 216 different colours.
Calculate the size of one image in megabytes. [2 marks]
Answer megabytes
(^0 2). 2 How many images, taken using the camera referred to in Question 02.1, could be stored on a 256 gigabyte memory card?
You should assume that all of the storage space on the memory card is available to store image data.
Round your answer down to the nearest whole number. [1 mark]
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Do not write outside the When a digital camera takes a photograph, an array of photosensors produces^ box analogue voltages representing the amount of light falling on each photosensor. An analogue-to-digital converter then converts these analogue voltages into digital values. These digital values are used to create the pixel data for the bitmap image.
0 2. (^3) Explain why the voltages produced by the photosensors are considered to be analogue and why the pixel data is considered to be digital. [2 marks]
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Do not write outside the (^0 3) Figure 1 shows the organisation of part of a simple computer system.^ box
Figure 1
(^0 3). 1 State the name of the bus labelled X in Figure 1. [1 mark]
0 3. (^2) The data bus inside the computer uses synchronous parallel data transmission.
Describe what synchronous transmission is. [1 mark]
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Do not write outside the 0 3. (^3) Peripherals, such as a keyboard or printer, are connected to the computer using a^ box USB (Universal Serial Bus) connection. USB uses synchronous serial data transmission.
Explain why serial transmission has been chosen to communicate with peripherals connected to the computer and why parallel transmission is used by the data bus inside the computer. [3 marks]
0 3. (^4) The USB interface inside the computer is an example of an I/O controller.
Describe the role of an I/O controller. [2 marks]
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Do not write outside the 0 4. (^1) Shade the lozenges next to all of the true statements about representing numbers^ box using fixed and floating point representations. [2 marks]
A processor can usually carry out calculations on fixed point numbers more quickly than calculations on floating point numbers.
B Fixed point numbers represent data using a mantissa and an exponent.
In a given number of bits, a fixed point system can represent positive numbers that are closer to zero than a floating point system can.
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In a given number of bits, a fixed point system can represent some numbers more precisely than a floating point system.
E In a given number of bits, a floating point system can represent a bigger range of numbers than a fixed point system.
Questions 04 .2, 04 .3 and 04 .4 use a normalised floating point representation with an 8 - bit mantissa and a 4 - bit exponent, both stored using two’s complement.
0 4. (^2) Figure 2 shows a floating point representation of a number:
Figure 2
Calculate the decimal equivalent of the number in Figure 2.
You should show your working. [2 marks]
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Do not write outside the Questions 04 .2, 04 .3 and 04 .4 use a normalised floating point representation with an^ box 8 - bit mantissa and a 4 - bit exponent, both stored using two’s complement.
(^0 4). 3 The decimal number 12.765625 (which can also be expressed as
) cannot be
represented exactly in this floating point system.
Write the closest possible normalised representation of this number in the boxes below.
You should show your working. [3 marks]
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0 4. (^4) What is the smallest number of bits that would need to be added to the mantissa so that the decimal number 12.765625 could be represented exactly? [1 mark]
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Do not write outside the 0 5. (^1) A company uses a file server that stores files on magnetic hard disk drives. These^ box files can be accessed by other computers through a network.
Describe:
In your response, you do not need to describe how the file would be transmitted across the network or how the TCP/IP stack would be used in the computer that has requested the file. You only need to write about how the data would be put onto the network by the file server. [ 1 2 marks]
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Do not write outside the 0 5. (^2) The company needs to purchase a second file server.^ box
It is considering whether to purchase a file server with magnetic hard disk drives installed or a file server with solid-state disks (SSDs) instead. Each of the file servers has the same total storage capacity.
State one advantage and one disadvantage of purchasing the file server that uses SSDs. [ 2 marks]
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Disadvantage
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Do not write outside the 0 6. (^3) Using the rules of Boolean algebra, simplify the following Boolean expression.^ box
A ⋅ (^) ( B C D + B C D + B + A + B⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ )
You must show your working. [4 marks]
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