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X816/75/01 Computing Science

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Total marks — 80
SECTION 1 — Software design and development, and Computer systems — 55 marks
Attempt ALL questions.
Attempt EITHER Section 2 OR Section 3
SECTION 2 — Database design and development — 25 marks
SECTION 3 — Web design and development — 25 marks
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SECTION 1 — SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
— 55 marks
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1. A confectionery company requires a program to store information about boxed

chocolates.

Complete the table below to state which types of variable should be used. 2

Variable Type of variable

chocolateName

inStock Boolean

numberOfChocolatesInBox

2. Convert the denary number 105 into 8‑bit binary. 1

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3. Explain why it may be necessary to return to the implementation stage of an
iterative development process after the testing stage. 1

It may be necessary if there was an error

during the testing stage.
4. A parking fine is £130. If this fine is paid within 14 days the fine is halved.
A design for a program to calculate the fine depending on when it is paid is shown
below.
1. Set fine to 130
2. Get number of days since fine was issued
3. Calculate and store fine

Using a design technique of your choice, refine step 3 of the design. 3

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5. A competition was run to suggest names for a new bridge. The 20 most popular
bridge names have been identified and stored.

(a) State the most suitable data structure used to store the bridge names. 1

(b) State the predefined function that should be used to select any one of the 20
stored bridge names as the winner. 1

6. Mateo is planning a cycling trip around Italy. The route he is planning is

1856.3 kilometers. This value would be stored in a computer system using
‘floating‑point representation’ as shown below.

0.18563 × 104

(a) Identify the mantissa and exponent in the above floating‑point representation. 2

Mantissa

Exponent

(b) During the trip Mateo uses his smartphone to track his route.
Describe how he could reduce the energy use of his device to ensure the
battery lasts as long as possible. 1

Mateo should turn down the brightness.

He could also use the low battery mode.

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7. The program code below protects the rechargeable battery in an electric
toothbrush.

…
Line 67 SET brushstop TO FALSE
Line 68 WHILE brushstop = FALSE DO
Line 69 SET battery TO <percentage of power left>
Line 70 SET temperature TO <temperature of battery>
Line 71 IF battery < 3 OR temperature > 45 THEN
Line 72 SET brushstop TO TRUE
Line 73 END IF
Line 74 END WHILE
Line 75 <switch toothbrush off>
…

(a) State the logical operator in this code. 1

(b) Describe the purpose of the Boolean variable in this code. 1

8. State how many extended ASCII text characters can be stored using 80 bits. 1

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9. A campsite booking system is being developed to calculate the cost of a stay at £35
per night, per person. The cost will be displayed to the user before they confirm
the booking. The system will ask users for their name, number of people, arrival
date and length of stay.

(a) Complete the analysis below. 2

Input

Process

Output Cost of stay

(b) The code below calculates the cost of the stay.

…
Line 7 RECEIVE name FROM (STRING) KEYBOARD
Line 8 RECEIVE numberOfPeople FROM (INTEGER) KEYBOARD
Line 9 RECEIVE arrival FROM (STRING) KEYBOARD
Line 10 RECEIVE nightsStaying FROM (INTEGER) KEYBOARD
Line 11 <calculate cost of stay>

Line 12 SEND "The cost of your stay is £" & cost TO DISPLAY
…

Using a programming language of your choice, write the code for Line 11. 3

cost = numberOfPeople x 35 x nights

staying

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9. (continued)

(c) To pay a deposit, users will have to provide bank account details.
State how this information could be transferred securely to the booking
system. 1

(d) The number of guests who stayed at the campsite each night in 2023 is stored
in the array guests.

Index 0 1 2 … 364
Value 271 240 153 … 87

The campsite want to know the total number of guests who stayed at the site
in 2023.
Using a programming language of your choice, write the code to calculate this
total. 4

Total = 0
for i in index:
Total += value

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9. (continued)

(e) A map of the campsite is stored as a bit‑mapped graphic.

Describe how this map is represented in a computer system’s memory. 2

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10. An event company organises children’s parties. They would like a program to help
calculate the costs of parties.
Part of the structure diagram design is shown below.

Program - Party Cost

Child Is cake Get Get Is number of Cost = (Child

buffet required? number number adults + number buffet × number
= £2.00 of of of children of children) +
adults children >20 Cake + Venue

yes no yes no
Cake Cake Start loop for Venue Venue
= £15.00 = £0 each child = £0 = £50

Get dietary
requirements

(a) State another design technique that could be used to design this program. 1

(b) State the type of loop shown in the design above. 1

(c) The design is tested using the following inputs:

• 12 adults
• 16 children
• cake required - Yes.
(i) State the venue cost. 1

(ii) State the total cost of the party. 1

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10. (continued)

(d) A personalised party sweatshirt costs £12, with each character of the
personalised message costing an additional 25p.
(i) Using a design technique of your choice, design a program to store the
user’s message and output the total cost of the sweatshirt. 4

(ii) The washing label on the sweatshirt has the following symbol.

Identify an object used to make this symbol and one of its attributes. 2

Object

Attribute

(e) Once the program is implemented, state which part of the processor will
execute the following tasks. 2

Task Part of processor

Calculate cost

Transfer the next instruction

from memory

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The first race has four stages as shown below.

stage 1
Race one stage 2
start
Stage Distance (km)

1 19.9
finish
2 6.5

3 35.2 stage 3
stage 4
4 20.0

The design for part of the program is shown below.

6.1 Loop 4 times

6.2 Get valid distance for stage

(a) The distance of a stage can range from 5 to 75 km.

(i) Using a design technique of your choice, refine step 6.2 to check the user
enters a valid distance. 4

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11. (a) (continued)

(ii) Test data is used to ensure the distance entered is valid.

State the type of test in the table below. 2

Type of test Input Expected results

67.6 Program continues

Program displays an error

3.7
message

(b) The following lines of code are written to input the distance for each stage of
‘Race one’.

…
Line 6 FOR stage FROM 0 TO 3 DO
Line 7 RECEIVE distance FROM KEYBOARD
…

Changes should be made to the code above to ensure that any number of
stages could be processed.
Describe two changes that would be required. 2

Change 1

Change 2

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11. (continued)

(c) Edge Races classify races as ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’ or ‘advanced’ based on

the total distance of the race. The program displays the classification after
calculating the total distance.

…
Line 25 <calculate the total distance for the race>
Line 26 IF totalDistance < 25 THEN
Line 27 SET race TO "beginner"
Line 28 END IF
Line 29 IF totalDistance >= 25 OR totalDistance <=100 THEN
Line 30 SET race TO "intermediate"
Line 31 END IF
Line 32 IF totalDistance > 100 THEN
Line 33 SET race TO "advanced"
Line 34 END IF
Line 35 SEND race TO DISPLAY
…

(i) When tested the code produced an unexpected result.

Identify the type of error in the code above. 1

(ii) The code above is inefficient.

Using a programming language of your choice, re‑write lines 26 to 34 to
make this more efficient. 2

(d) During execution the code is translated.

State the type of translator that has been used. 1

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11. (continued)

(e) The average stage distance for each race is calculated and stored in the
variable avgDistance.
(i) Using a programming language of your choice, write the code to store
the average to 1 decimal place. 2

(ii) The average stage distance should be displayed, as shown below for
‘Race one’.

The average is 20.4 km

Using a programming language of your choice and the variable

avgDistance, write the code to produce the output above. 2

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SECTION 2 — DATABASE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT — 25 marks
Attempt ALL questions

12. Riley wants to add a new contact on their mobile phone.

Cancel New Contact

Add Photo

Jamie
Jones

07895582319

Q W E R T Y U I O P

A S D F G H J K L

Z X C V B N M

123 space return

State the attribute type that would be used to store the data identified by the
arrow above. 1

13. Nathan cancels his ClipClop social media account.

Describe one implication for ClipClop under UK General Data Protection Regulation. 1

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14. Teams take part in a technology competition. Their details are stored in a table
called Team. The sorted output below was produced by executing a query.

teamID schoolID teamName noOfMembers technology

T1 936 Pseudo Boom 3 Robot

T22 871 Brainy Bunch 4 E-Glasses

T56 658 Thinking Caps 2 Air drone

T24 658 B.H.B 2 VR headset

T67 402 Fuzz Logic 4 Health tracker

T29 214 Alpha 1.0 5 Artificial intelligence

T37 214 Successors 3 Land drone

T46 214 Brainy Bunch 4 VR headset

T99 197 Elec-tricks 2 Smart watch

(a) Complete the SQL statement used to produce this sorted output. 2

SELECT teamID, schoolID, teamName, noOfMembers, technology

FROM Team

ORDER BY

(b) Brainy Bunch from schoolID 214 has been disqualified from the competition.
Write the SQL statement to remove them from the table. 2

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15. The Games Lab is a video game testing company that programmers can send games
to for testing. Each game is allocated to a tester who works on several different
games. Testers are based in three offices — Scotland, France and Australia — and
only accept games rated 12A, 15 and 18.

(a) (i) Use the information provided to complete the entity‑relationship

diagram below by:
• identifying any additional key attributes
• drawing any missing attributes
• drawing the relationship between entities
• naming the relationship between the entities. 4

gameID name
gameName
testerID

rating

Game Tester
testerID
contactNo

programmer
multiplatform

(ii) State the validation to be applied to the Rating attribute. 1

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15. (continued)

The Game table is implemented. Some of the data it currently stores is shown
below.

Game

gameID gameName programmer rating testerID multiplatform

378B World Away CodeQueen 12A EX2706 Yes

311H Denta Deet AbdurPSK 15 EX777 No

484D Cupland LindyLoo 12A EX360 No

257P Heat Wave EMC2 15 EX277 Yes

183B Water Rage CodeQueen 15 EX987 Yes

021B Bee-Hive AcroGymGal 12A EX120 Yes

782C Combat45 AbdurPSK 12A EX2706 No

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The game ‘Water Rage’ has been reclassified as an 18 rating. The following SQL
statement was implemented to make this change.

UPDATE Game
SET rating = "18"
WHERE programmer = "CodeQueen"

(b) Explain why the SQL statement above would give an unexpected result. 1

(c) Rewrite the SQL statement to give the expected result. 1

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16. A database stores data on a local netball league. The Club table stores data of the
clubs that play in the league. The Player table stores data on each player.
Sample data from each table is shown below.

Club

clubID clubName trainingVenue contactNo division

A2706 Joint Forces Glasgow 01415829631 3

B1803 Shooting Stars Renfrewshire 01245668123 2

E0408 Team Titans Glasgow 01415571239 1

P2507 Hot Shots Lanarkshire 01245789456 1

H0311 Throwing Tigers Glasgow 01418529637 2

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Player

playerID name email age position clubID

358 Meenal [email protected] 21 Goal keeper E0408

562 Jacob [email protected] 25 Goal shooter A2706

981 Tara [email protected] 24 Centre P2507

742 Ibrahim [email protected] 36 Wing defence E0408

801 Devin [email protected] 30 Goal shooter B1803

129 Amber [email protected] 21 Wing attack A2706

232 Xander [email protected] 38 Goal defence E0408

475 Harris [email protected] 36 Goal attack E0408

603 Zohra [email protected] 32 Centre B1803

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(a) Explain the purpose of the foreign key clubID in the Player table. 1

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(b) Design a query that could be used to create a list of names and the division for
Goal keepers that are over 30 years old. 4

Field(s)

Table(s)

Search Criteria

(c) (i) The netball league wants a list of players who meet at least one of the
following criteria:
• train in Lanarkshire
• play for a team in division 2.
Complete the SQL query below. 4

SELECT clubName, name, playerID

FROM

WHERE

(ii) Describe how this SQL query should be tested. 2

(d) Explain why it is better to have referential integrity implemented before

adding a new player to the netball database. 1

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17. Digital Escapes is a company who provide online jigsaw challenges.

Each challenge has three web pages each containing a jigsaw puzzle. The user can
move to the next web page by clicking a hyperlink.
Low‑fidelity prototypes of a challenge are shown below.

Welcome to your challenge

Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2

Your finished jigsaw

will look like this.
Your finished jigsaw
will look like this.
Puzzle 2 Final Puzzle

Final Puzzle

Your finished jigsaw

will look like this.

Complete the diagram below to show the structure of this challenge. 2

Puzzle 1

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18. An athletics club would like a new web page to allow them to celebrate the success
of their members from recent events.
They would like the web page to display the following content:
• a paragraph with information about the event
• an image of the club members at the event with a paragraph about the results
under the image
• a hyperlink to the home page
• the club’s logo at the top of the page.

Complete the wireframe below to design the web page. 3

clubLogo.jpg

Paragraph about the event

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19. Gone Away travel is a holiday booking website.
Below is the home page for the website.

https://www.goneawaytravel.co.uk

Gone Away Travel

Naples

Copenhagen

Egypt

(a) Gone Away travel have added flags to the images on their home page. These
contain a white background that must be removed.
State the reason why a PNG file format would be more suitable than a JPEG
file format. 1

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(b) The following HTML and CSS is for a web page containing information about a trip
to Naples.

style.css
body{
background-color:lightblue;
}
img{
height:200px;
width:250px;
}
h1{
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:14px;
}
div{
background-color:white;
}
#city{
text-align:center;
font-size:20px;
}
p{
text-align:center;
font-size:12px;
}
naples.html
<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Gone Away Travel - Naples</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Gone Away Travel</h1>
<h1 id="city">Naples</h1>
<p>Come visit the lovely Naples, the third largest city in
Italy. Home to the best pizza in the world. View our
pictures below to help make up your mind.</p>
<div>
<img src="Media/naples1.png">
<p class="description">Stunning view of the Naples bay</p>
</div>
<div>
<img src="Media/naples2.png">
<p class="description">One of the many food markets in
Naples</p>
</div>
</body>
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19. (b) (continued)

(i) The description of each photograph is to be right aligned, use Arial font
and be the same size as the other paragraphs on the page.
Write a single CSS rule that would only style the descriptions. 3

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�����������������������������������������������������������������������

�����������������������������������������������������������������������

(ii) The hyperlink below can be found on the Naples information page.
<a href="www.NaplesCity.co.uk">Official Naples city
guide</a>
State the type of addressing used in the hyperlink. 1

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19. (continued)

(c) A video tour of Naples will be added to the web page. All media files for the
website are stored in a folder called ‘Media’ as shown below.

> website > website > Media

>
Name

copenhagen.html

egypt.html
naples1 naples2 naplesTour.mp4
goneawayhomepage.html

naples.html

Media

Using this structure, complete the following code so that the video
naplesTour.mp4 is displayed on the naples.html page with the following
dimensions. 3

300 px

naplesTour.mp4

350 px

<video ����������������������������������������������������������������������� controls>

<source src=���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������
type = "video/mp4">

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19. (continued)

(d) Gone Away Travel would like to improve their website based on user feedback.
A sample of the feedback is shown below.

‘It would be fun to listen to clips of useful local phrases for each holiday
location.’
‘I felt really bored while using your website. Booking a holiday should be
fun.’
‘I got stuck on the Naples page!’

Identify one functional requirement that should be added to the website based
on the feedback above. 1

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20. Blockland theme park is developing a new website for visitors.
The following code is used to create the home page.

<!doctype html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Blockland Home Page</title>
<style>
body{background-color:lightblue;font-family:arial;}
img{height:150px; width:150px;}
h1{font-family:helvetica; font-size:24pt; text-align:center;}
.openSection{text-align:left;}
div{background-color:white; font-size:12pt;}

</style>
</head>

<body>
<img src="blocklandLogo.jpg" alt="Blockland Logo">
<h1>Welcome to Blockland!</h1>

<div>
<h1 class="openSection">Ultimate Day Out</h1>
<p>With an amazing themed room to suit every Block Lover including
rapid race cars, terrifying tarantulas and spectacular space there
is something for the whole family.</p>
<a href="parkRides.html">Click here to view the rides in the
park</a>
</div>

<a href="parkShop.html">Click here to browse the shop</a>

</body>
</html>

(a) Describe how the ‘Ultimate Day Out’ heading, including any background colour,
will be displayed in a browser. 4

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20. (continued)

(b) The following code is to be added to the website.

…
<p>New Rides</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="blockCars.html">The Block Cars</a></li>
<li>The Mystical Forest</li>
<li>The Lizard</li>
</ul>
…

Draw how this code would look when viewed in a browser. 3

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(c) The page for a new ride called ‘The Block Cars’ is shown below. When the user
moves the cursor over the image of the ride another image showing the
opening date is revealed.

https://www.blockland.co.uk/blockcars https://www.blockland.co.uk/blockcars

The Block Cars The Block Cars

Coming
16th October
2024

It's time for everyone to become It's time for everyone to become
drivers at the new exciting Blockland drivers at the new exciting Blockland
block cars! After a brief road block cars! After a brief road
safety video you will be ready to go safety video you will be ready to go
and take the wheel of your very and take the wheel of your very
own electric block car and own electric block car and
drive around the Blockland city. drive around the Blockland city.

(i) State the language used to implement this feature. 1

(ii) State the type of event that is used. 1

(d) Blockland runs a competition that involves guests of the park submitting video
footage they have taken of the rides. A member of staff suggests uploading the
videos to the website.
State what Blockland should do to ensure they comply with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act. 1

(e) The website has been tested to ensure that all navigation works as expected
and all the media on the website displays correctly.
Describe one other test that could be carried out on the website. 1

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Acknowledgement of copyright
Question 1 Trong Nguyen/shutterstock.com
Question 9 (e) arju16/shutterstock.com
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Question 19 Sergii Figurnyi/shutterstock.com
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