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GCSE
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paper 2 Written Assessment

Thursday 16 May 2019 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

Materials For Examiner’s Use
There are no additional materials required for this paper. Pages Mark
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Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Use pencil only for drawing. 4–5
• Answer all questions. 6–7
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided.
8–9
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you
do not want to be marked. 10–11
• You must not use a calculator. 12–13
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Information
• The total number of marks available for this paper is 80. TOTAL

Advice

For the multiple-choice questions, completely fill in the lozenge alongside the appropriate answer.
CORRECT METHOD WRONG METHODS

If you want to change your answer you must cross out your original answer as shown.
If you wish to return to an answer previously crossed out, ring the answer you now wish to select as
shown.

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0 1 . 1 Convert the decimal number 197 into binary.

[1 mark]

0 1 . 2 Convert the hexadecimal number A4 into decimal.

Show your working.

[2 marks]

Answer

0 2 . 1 What is the largest decimal number that can be represented using 5 bits?
[1 mark]

0 2 . 2 How many bits are there in 3 MB?

Show your working.

[2 marks]

Answer

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0 3 State one advantage of using Unicode instead of using ASCII. box

[1 mark]

0 4 Which two of the following are components of a CPU?

Shade two lozenges.

[2 marks]

A Arithmetic logic unit

B Control unit

C Fan

D Hard disk drive

E Keyboard

F Power supply unit

0 5 A computer game is one type of application software. State two other types of
application software. You must not use brand names in your answer.
[2 marks]

Turn over for the next question

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0 6 Select the correct statement about secondary storage. box

Shade one lozenge.

[1 mark]

A Secondary storage is a type of ROM.

B Secondary storage is non-volatile.

C Secondary storage is temporary.

D Secondary storage loses its content when it is turned off.

0 7 Describe how an optical disk is read.

[4 marks]

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0 8 The Huffman tree in Figure 1 was generated for the string ARE ALL STARS REAL box

Figure 1

0 8 . 1 Part of the string ARE ALL STARS REAL was incorrectly encoded as in Figure 2
below.

Figure 2

1111000010101011
What string does this encoding represent?
[1 mark]

0 8 . 2 What would be the correct binary encoding for the substring STAR?

Write the correct encoding below the letters in the table.

[2 marks]

S T A R

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0 9 Explain two reasons why software companies usually do not make their source code box

publicly available. Source code is the code they wrote to create the software.
[4 marks]

1 0 Define the term embedded system.

[2 marks]

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1 1 . 1 Draw a simple diagram to show a star network topology containing four desktop box

computers.
[2 marks]

1 1 . 2 Draw a simple diagram to show a bus network topology containing four desktop
computers.
[2 marks]

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1 1 . 3 State two advantages of using a star topology instead of a bus topology. box

[2 marks]

1 1 . 4 State one disadvantage of using a star topology instead of a bus topology.

[1 mark]

1 1 . 5 Discuss the benefits and risks of using a computer network.

[9 marks]

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1 1 . 6 Define the term network protocol.

[2 marks]

1 1 . 7 Which two of the following are email protocols?

Shade two lozenges.

[2 marks]

A FTP

B HTTP

C IMAP

D SMTP

E TCP

F UDP

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1 2 . 1 Explain why a firewall improves network security. box

[2 marks]

1 2 . 2 A company has decided to move its business online but it is concerned about making
sure that only authorised users can gain access to the system. The company has set
up a CAPTCHA system to check that the user is not a robot.

Explain three different electronic methods that could then be used to confirm user
identity.
[6 marks]

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1 2 . 3 Penetration testing can be conducted as either black-box or white-box testing. box

Explain the difference between these two types of penetration testing.

[4 marks]

1 3 The four layers of the TCP/IP network model are shown below.

For each row in Figure 3, write the letter A, B, C or D that matches the description.

Each letter should only be used once.

[2 marks]

A Application layer
B Transport layer
C Internet layer
D Link layer

Figure 3

Description Letter

Addresses data for transmission

Sets up the communication between the two hosts

Where the network hardware is located

Where the user software, such as web browsers or email

programs, operates

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1 4 A virus is a specific category of malware. box

Describe three other different categories of malware.

[6 marks]

Malware 1

Malware 2

Malware 3

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1 5 A burglar alarm sounds an alarm when it is armed (turned on) and the window or door box

is opened.

The truth table for this basic system is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Armed (A) Door (B) Window (C) Alarm (Q)

0 = Off 0 = Closed 0 = Closed 0 = Off
1= On 1 = Open 1 = Open 1 = On
0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 1 1 0
1 0 0 0
1 0 1 1
1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1

Draw the logic circuit that represents the truth table in Figure 4. You must use the
correct symbols for logic gates. You may not need to use all the gates shown.
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1 6 Specifications for two different devices are shown in Figure 5. box

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Device A compared to

Device B.

Your answer should explain the impact each advantage/disadvantage will have on the
operation of the device.

You should assume that any aspects of the specifications not mentioned in Figure 5
are the same for both devices.
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Figure 5

Device A Device B

Quad (4) core 1.6 GHz CPU with 8 MB Dual (2) core 3.9 GHz CPU with
cache 2 MB cache

16 GB RAM 4 GB RAM

2 TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) 250 GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

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