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The following sheets are the past papers from the OCR board and amended to
reflect the topics that you study.

The grade boundaries for each exam have been adjusted and below you can
see the grades achievable based on the amended question papers.

There are spaces for some papers which are not available in this booklet but
we will sit in the run up to study leave.

The mark schemes will be available for you.

Paper Mark Available Marks %

January 2011 68
June 2011 55
January 2012 61
June 2012 52
AQA Specimen 83
January 2013 60
June 2013 76

Paper A* A B C D E F
Jan 11 61(90%) 54(80%) 48(70%) 41(60%) 34(50%) 27(40%) 20(30%)
Jun 11 50(90%) 44(80%) 39(70%) 33(60%) 28(50%) 22(40%) 17(30%)
Jan 12 51(84%) 46(75%) 40(66%) 35(58%) 29(48%) 24(39%) 18(30%)
Jun 12 44(85%) 38(74%) 33(63%) 28(53%) 22(43%) 18(34%) 13(25%)
Jan 13 51(85%) 45(75%) 39(65%) 34(56%) 27(45%) 21(35%) 15(25%)
Jun 13 67(89%) 59(78%) 50(66%) 42(55%) 34(45%) 27(35%) 19(25%)
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COMPUTING A451
Computer Systems and Programming

Tuesday 11 January 2011

* O C E / 2 6 5 7 1 *

Candidates answer on the question paper.

OCR supplied materials:

Afternoon
None
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Other materials required:
None

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes above. Please write
clearly and in capital letters.
• Use black ink. Pencil may be used for graphs and diagrams only.
• Read each question carefully. Make sure you know what you have to do before starting
your answer.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided. Additional paper may be
used if necessary but you must clearly show your candidate number, centre number and
question number(s).
• Answer all the questions.
• Do not write in the bar codes.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

• The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question.
• The total number of marks for this paper is 80.
• Your Quality of Written Communication is assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document consists of 16 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.

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1 Jo buys a notebook computer which has a 3MHz quad-core central processing unit (CPU).

(a) State the purpose of the CPU.

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(b) Describe what is meant by

3MHz CPU

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quad-core CPU

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2 A small business has three stand-alone computers, a printer and an internet connection in an
office.

(a) State two advantages of connecting the computers to create a local area network.

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(b) Describe, using a diagram, how the computers can be connected to each other using a bus
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3 (a) Calculate the denary value of the 8-bit binary number 10010111.
You must show your working.

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(b) Add the following two 8-bit binary numbers and explain the result.
You must show your working.

1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
+
1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0

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4 A desk-top computer’s memory includes ROM and RAM.

Tick one box in each row to show whether each of the statements is true for ROM or RAM.

ROM RAM

Programs and data which are

currently in use are loaded here.

All the contents are lost when the

power is turned off.

It is used to boot up the computer

when it is switched on.
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6 A shopping centre uses several remote-controlled CCTV cameras for security. An operator uses a
computer to watch, control and record the output of the cameras.

State an input, output and storage device which will be needed by the computer. For each, explain
the reason why it is needed.

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Reason

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Reason

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7 A teacher uses a database to store the marks of pupils from all year 9 classes.

(a) PUPIL and CLASS are two entities used in this database.

Explain the term entity.

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(b) The data for the first four pupils in the PUPIL table is shown below.

PupilNumber Surname FirstName ClassCode

A01 Adams Michelle 9DK
A02 Ali Mohammed 9BH
A03 Ali Shirelle 9DK
A04 Azor Michelle 9FT

(i) State the primary key for the PUPIL table and explain your answer.

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Explanation

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(ii) The database also contains a CLASS table. The primary key for the CLASS table is
ClassCode.

Explain why ClassCode has also been included in the PUPIL table.

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8 A syntax error can occur when writing a program.

(a) State what is meant by a syntax error, giving an example.

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(b) Describe tools and facilities available in an integrated development environment (IDE) which
can help the programmer to identify and correct syntax errors.

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9* Computer technology has changed the ways in which teenagers interact with each other.
Explain how developments in software and hardware have enabled new methods of communication
among teenagers.

The quality of written communication will be assessed in your answer to this question.

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10 (a) Explain how ASCII is used to represent text in a computer system.

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(b) State what is meant by the character set of a computer.

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(c) Unicode is also used to represent text in a computer system.

Explain the difference between the character sets of Unicode and ASCII.

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11 Frances is writing a program which simulates a dice game played with three ordinary 6-sided
dice.

(a) When the player rolls the three dice, the player is given points according to the algorithm
expressed in the flow diagram below.

BEGIN

YES Are all three NO

dice equal?

Score = total on the 3

dice
YES Are two of the NO
dice equal?

Score = sum on the 2 equal dice Score = 0

Score = Score – (the number on

the other dice)

END

State the value of the score if the dice rolled are

345 Score : .........................

444 Score : .........................

556 Score : .........................

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(b) Some rolls of the dice result in a negative score.

State a set of three numbers which can be used to test whether the algorithm produces a
negative score when it should, and state the expected output for your test data.

Set of test data: .........................................................................................................................

Expected output: .................................................................................................................. [2]

When the dice are rolled, the results are stored in an array called DiceResult.

For example, if the first dice shows a 5 then the value of DiceResult(1) becomes 5.

(c) Describe what is meant by an array.

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(d) State the data type and size of the array DiceResult giving a reason for each.

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Reason: ....................................................................................................................................

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Size of array DiceResult: ..........................................................................................................

Reason: ....................................................................................................................................

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(e) The routine for rolling the dice is written as a sequence below.

BEGIN RollTheDice
DiceResult(1) = Random Number between 1 and 6
DiceResult(2) = Random Number between 1 and 6
DiceResult(3) = Random Number between 1 and 6
END

Rewrite this routine so that it uses iteration.

You may use a diagram.

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 GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
COMPUTING A451
Computer Systems and Programming

Monday 23 May 2011

* O C E / 2 6 5 7 2 *

Candidates answer on the question paper.

OCR supplied materials:

Morning
None
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Other materials required:
None

* A 4 5 1 *

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes above. Please write
clearly and in capital letters.
• Use black ink. Pencil may be used for graphs and diagrams only.
• Read each question carefully. Make sure you know what you have to do before starting
your answer.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided. Additional paper may be
used if necessary but you must clearly show your candidate number, centre number and
question number(s).
• Answer all the questions.
• Do not write in the bar codes.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

• The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question.
• The total number of marks for this paper is 80.
• Your Quality of Written Communication is assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document consists of 16 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.

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1 (a) State what is meant by a storage device, an input device and an output device in a computer
system.

Storage Device:

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A secondary school is upgrading its computer equipment.

(b) Complete the table below to show whether magnetic, optical or solid state storage is most
appropriate for each of the following uses. Give a reason for each case.
The first one has been done for you.

Magnetic, optical or
Use Reason why this is most appropriate
solid state

Storing pictures in a solid state Is not affected by the camera being moved
digital camera around

Handheld device used

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(c)* The secondary school wants the computer systems to be more accessible to students with
disabilities.

Describe, with examples, input and output devices which are available for students with
disabilities.

The quality of written communication will be assessed in your answer to this question.

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2 A grocery shop uses a database with a DBMS to keep records of its stock.

(a) Explain what is meant by a DBMS.

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(b) The database uses forms and reports.

Describe each of these and give one example of how it would be used in the shop’s
database.

Form

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Example

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Report

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Here is some data from the supermarket’s database.

ProductID Description Supplier Quantity Reorder Discontinued Price

Left Level
0001 6 eggs Hill Farm 50 20 FALSE £0.98
0002 2 litres of milk Hill Farm 17 20 TRUE £1.20
0003 1kg apples Killey’s 42 50 FALSE £0.79
0004 250g butter Hill Farm 12 25 FALSE £0.49
0005 500g Moku Flakes Moku Foods 0 10 TRUE £0.99
0006 6 salad tomatoes Killey’s 30 30 FALSE £0.89
0007 580g can baked beans Moku Foods 27 30 FALSE £0.42
0008 Family tomato ketchup Moku Foods 41 20 FALSE £1.45

(c) The shop runs queries using logical operators to select data for different purposes.

(i) State the ProductID of the products in the above sample which fit the following criteria.

Supplier = Killey’s

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Price > £1.00 OR Supplier = Hill Farm

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(ii) Write the criteria which can be used to select all products which are not discontinued
and where the QuantityLeft is lower than the ReorderLevel.

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3 A rock band uses an internet website to advertise its music.

(a) The website uses HTML.

(i) Describe HTML.

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(ii) Explain the importance of HTML in the creation of web pages.

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(b) A list of file extensions for common file standards used on the internet is shown below.

JPG PDF MP3 MPEG ZIP

The rock band allows some files to be downloaded by fans.

Complete the table below to show which file format from the list given above may be used
for each of the following files.

File File Format

A high resolution image of the band to use as a desktop
background.
Sheet music of their songs ready to be printed in the correct
format for guitar players.
A short video extract from their latest concert tour.

A compressed collection of 200 plain text files containing the

lyrics of all their songs.
An audio recording of a song from their album.

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(c) Some of the file formats use compression.

(i) Explain the importance of compressing files when transmitting them via the internet.

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(ii) Describe the difference between lossy and lossless compression and give an example
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6 (a) Convert the hexadecimal number 6A to denary.
You must show your working.

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(b) Convert the hexadecimal number 6A to binary.

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(c) Convert the binary number 00111101 to hexadecimal.

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(d) Explain why hexadecimal numbers are often used to represent binary numbers.

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7 A program contains the following code to calculate the circumference of a bicycle wheel, using the
wheel size (diameter).

BEGIN
CONSTANT Pi = 3.14
INPUT WheelSize
Circumference = Pi * WheelSize
OUTPUT Circumference
END

(a) The code uses one constant and two variables.

(i) State the names of the constant and the variables.

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(ii) Explain one difference between a constant and a variable.

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(b) The data type of WheelSize is integer and the data type of Circumference is real number.

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9 A dog that is 5 years old is equivalent to a 42 year old human. Ashok is writing a program which
converts the age of a dog to the equivalent age for a human.

The program uses the following method:

• The user inputs age of the dog in years

• If the age is 2 or less, the human equivalent is 12 times the age
• If the age is more than 2, the human equivalent is 24 for the first 2 years, plus 6 for every
additional year.

Write an algorithm to calculate and output the human equivalent of the age of a dog using the
method described.

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GCSE COMPUTING
A451/01 Computer Systems and Programming
* A 4 2 6 2 6 0 1 1 2 *

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

OCR supplied materials: Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

None

Other materials required:

None

* A 4 5 1 0 1 *

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes above. Please write
clearly and in capital letters.
• Use black ink. HB pencil may be used for graphs and diagrams only.
• Answer all the questions.
• Read each question carefully. Make sure you know what you have to do before starting
your answer.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided. Additional paper may be
used if necessary but you must clearly show your candidate number, centre number and
question number(s).
• Do not write in the bar codes.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

• The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question.
• The total number of marks for this paper is 80.
• Your Quality of Written Communication is assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document consists of 16 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.

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1 Bytes, Kilobytes and Megabytes are units used for the amount of data stored in a computer.

(a) State which of these units is most appropriate for the following items of data.

A one page text document: .......................................................................................................

A ten minute movie clip: ............................................................................................................

A person’s surname: ............................................................................................................ [3]

(b) A computer has a hard disk of 2 Terabytes.

How much is this in Gigabytes?

You must show your working.

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2 One of the functions of an operating system is multi-tasking.

(a) Explain one reason why multi-tasking is needed in an operating system.

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3 A mail-order company buys dresses from America and France to sell in the UK.

The company uses the following algorithm to convert sizes before printing them in its catalogue.
Half sizes are not possible (e.g. size 12.5).

INPUT Size
INPUT Origin
IF Origin = “America” THEN
Size = Size + 2
ELSE
IF Origin = “France” THEN
Size = Size – 26
END IF
END IF
PRINT Size

(a) The code uses the variables Origin and Size.

(i) Describe what is meant by a variable.

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(ii) State the most appropriate data type for the variables Origin and Size, giving a reason
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Origin

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(b) The company sells the following dresses.

Dress A Dress B Dress C

Origin: France Origin: America Origin: UK
Size: 40 Size: 8 Size: 12

State the size which will be printed in the catalogue using the algorithm given.

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5 Peter takes a picture of himself and his friends to put on a social networking site. The picture is
converted into pixels and stored as a bitmap file.

(a) Tick one box in each row to show whether or not each of the following items must be included
in the bitmap file.

Must be Need not be

included included
The names of the people in the picture

The width of the picture in pixels

The number of bits used for each pixel

The number of people in the picture

The colour of each pixel

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(b) (i) What is meant by the resolution of the picture?

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6 Mrs Smith runs a dog sitting service that looks after dogs whose owners are going away on holiday.

Mrs Smith uses a database with two tables:

• The table DOG stores the following data about each dog: DogID, name, sex, weight, date
of arrival, date of departure.
• The table JOB stores the daily jobs that she needs to do with each dog.

(a) The DOG table contains fields for the sex and weight of the dog.

(i) Describe a validation check that can be done on the sex field.

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(ii) Describe a different validation check that can be done on the weight field.

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An extract of the JOB table is shown below:

JobNumber DogID JobType Time Details

35 SM13 Feed Morning 250 g of Hundex

36 BA12 Walk Afternoon At least 30 minutes

37 SM13 Walk Afternoon Keep on leash

38 GH14 Other Morning Medicine: 1 tablet of Depucine

39 HT19 Other Evening Brush fur

(b) Explain why DogID has been included in this table.

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(c) Mrs Smith uses a query to select jobs using the following criteria:

(Time = “Afternoon”) OR (Time = “Evening”)

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(d) Mrs Smith wants to use database management software to create a report of all the jobs that
she needs to perform on any given day, using data from the DOG and JOB tables.

In the space below, design a layout for the report.

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7 A school uses a computer system to monitor the attendance, punctuality and homework of its
pupils.

(a) Describe two ways in which modern computer technology can help the school monitor the
pupils.

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(b) The school has decided to use off-the-shelf software.

(i) State two advantages of off-the-shelf software.

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(c)* Explain how the school might address any legal issues when creating a system which stores
personal data about pupils.

The quality of written communication will be assessed in your answer to this question.

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8 Mina’s computer has 4 GB of RAM.

(a) Describe the purpose of RAM in the computer.

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(b) The computer also uses virtual memory.

(i) Explain what is meant by virtual memory.

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(ii) State why virtual memory is needed.

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(iii) Mina upgrades the computer to 6 GB of RAM.

Explain how this upgrade will affect the performance of the computer.

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9 The program in a vending machine uses an array called Coins to store the value in pence of all the
coins that have been entered in the current sale.

A maximum of 10 coins can be entered in each sale.

After each sale, the array is reset so that all values are 0.

(a) Here is an example of the contents of the array Coins during a sale.

10 100 20 50 5 0 0 0 0 0

In the example above, the value of Coins(1) is 10.

State the value of

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(b) An algorithm to reset the contents of the array Coins after each sale is shown below. This
algorithm contains a logic error.

i=1
REPEAT
Coins(i) = 0
i=i+1
UNTIL i = 10

(i) State what is meant by a logic error.

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(ii) Explain why the algorithm above contains a logic error.

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(c) Write an algorithm to calculate the total value of the coins entered in the current sale using
the contents of the array Coins.

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