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McQuade Homework- Computing

Friday 27th April 2012

Computing Revision Numeracy

Question (Jan 2009 Question 5 (b) & 8)
Question 5 (b)
Part of a system will involve a data base containing information about the farms !he data stored will include" o !he name of the farmer o !he type of herd (a single letter between #$%& to describe the breed of cattle& followed by a ' digit number to show the si(e of herd) o !he last payment (in pounds and pence) made to the farmer o !he total volume of mil) collected for the last three collections (i) !he first two items of data will be entered into the database by a )eyboard operator Name !*+ different validation tests which would be carried out on the data entered and describe how they would be carried out
#nswer" !he two different validation test which would be carried out on the data entered into the database by a )eyboard operator is a character chec) and they would be carried out that only e,pected characters are present in a field -or e,ample& a numeric field may only allow the digits .$/& the decimal point and perhaps a minus sign or commas # te,t field such as personal name might disallow characters such as& 0 and 1& as they could be evidence of a mar)$up based security attac) !he second validation test& which would be carried out on the data entered is a format chec) !his would carry out with the chec)s that the data is in a specified format -or e,ample& dates have to be in the format 2234435555 Regular e,pressions should be considered for this type of validation

(ii) !hese values are stored as 67 bit binary numbers

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2o the following addition of three days of collections 8how your wor)ing

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Question 9"
(a) :,plain what is meant by the character set of a computer #nswer" # character set on a computer is a defined list of characters recognised by the computer hardware and software :ach character is represented by a number !he #8C;; character set& for e,ample& uses the numbers <.= through 67> represent all :nglish characters as well as <special= control characters :uropean ;8+ characters sets are similar to #8C;;& but they contain additional characters for :uropean languages (b) ?y referring to !*+ e,amples of applications that need character sets of different si(es& e,plain how codes are used to represent characters #nswer" #pplication 6" #!4 terminal #pplication 7" *ord $ processor :,planation use of code" :ach re@uired character is given an uni@ue set of codes #8C;; has a set of coded and it uses 9 bits to stand for each character and <#= is represented by <.6.....6= and <?= by <.6....6.= and so on !he fact that 9 bits represent a character is the reason why a byte normally has 9 bits in it !hings can be differentA some characters sets have more or less characters in them than in #8C;;& so these computers would use a different si(e of byte :?C2;C and BN;C+2: are simply other character sets& which are ;?4 machines and is based on ?C2 (?inary Coded 2ecimal)& with the coding being done in groups of C bits <#= is the first character stored in group in group 67& so it would be represented as 66.. ...6 -inally& BN;C+2: is similar to #8C;;& apart fro& that it contains more character ;t is constantly increasing in si(e as more characters are accepted

Question (Jan 2010 Question (5 & b)

Question 5
# library directs all members to an area where they can have their loans input to the computer system !he membership number is read from the memberDs card (a) 2escribe !*+ ways that the membership number can be input to the computer system Answer: A barcode reader can read the light and dark parallel lines on the card device. The dark lines are read in pairs and correspond to the digit and combined to form the bar code that will convey information for data of the members card, so in this case, it would eorgina !arke

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scan with the laser making forming the code into their number. A magnetic strip is on the back of the members card, which can be scanned down the side of the computer screen, which scanned magnetically. They are both fast and which would be stored as data. (b) 2escribe !*+ forms of output which could be produced by the system following the input of the membership number #nswer" !he screen3monitor is a output for the memberDs card& because as it scans into the computer system& which the code being decoded !he output to this is that it will bring up on their screen the memberDs number to be stored into their computer system # printer may be used to print out the details for the library to archive and a copy for the member Question 9" (i) :,press the denary number 6.> as in 9 bit binary number #nswer" 6.> $$$$ .66.6.66 (?inary) (ii) :,press the denary number as a he,adecimal number 6.> $$$$ E? (%e,adecimal) Bse your previous answers to show the relationship between binary and he,adecimal ?inary values can be ta)en in groups of four from right to left and then it is converted into decimal values and in he,adecimal& letters are used to stand for values from values 6. to 65& and so E F 6.66 and ? F 66 %ere is a table to e,press it more" # 6. ? 66 C 67 2 6' : 6C 65 (iii)

Question (May/June 2010 Question (1 (d) (i), 5 & 8)

Question 6 (d) (i)
#dd the following bytes& show your wor)ing"

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. 6 . 6 6 6 . 6 . 6 . . 6 6 6 .
6 6 6 6

Answer:

Question 5
(a) Change the denary number /' into" (i) # binary number in a 9 bit byte #nswer" /' $$$$ .6.666.6 (binary) (ii) # octal number #nswer" /' $$$$ 6'5 (+ctal) (iii) ?etween the binary and octal representations of a value #nswer" ;n binary& are usually ta)en in groups of 9 bits& so the e,tra +s have to be put in 9 bits is a byte and its done from the right side& which is converted into the denary& the to wor) out the +ctal in ?ase 9 (i) Bsing an 9 bit byte changes $E. into twoDs complement binary number #nswer" .6.666.6 (ii) Bsing 9 bit bytes describe how twoDs complement can be used by a computer to calculate the answer to /'$ 56 #nswer" (b)

Question 9

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+n an e,amination paper each have four possible answers labelled #& ?& C 2 :,plain why optical mar) reading (+4R) is a sensible way of mar)ing candidateDs papers and describe how the ma)ing is done #nswer" +4R stands for +ptical 4ar) Reader and it is used of shading in of bo,es or specific area of a form li)e the candidates papers to represent data ;n this case the of the mar)ing of a candidates paper& the +4R loo)s at the position of the bo,es which can be chosen by the pupil and they will shade in either the correct or wrong answer

Question (May/June 2011 Question (4 (a) & (b)

Question C
A car insurance firm collects data from its customers and stored it on a computer. (a) The customer name is stored using the computers character set. (i) !plain what is meant by the character set of the computer. Answer: # character set on a computer is a defined list of characters recognised by the computer hardware and software :ach character is represented by a number !he #8C;; character set& for e,ample& uses the numbers <.= through 67> represent all :nglish characters as well as <special= control characters :uropean ;8+ characters sets are similar to #8C;;& but they contain additional characters for :uropean languages (ii) :,plain the use of code to represent a character set

Answer: :ach re@uired character is given an uni@ue set of codes #8C;; has a set of coded and it uses 9 bits to stand for each character and <#= is represented by <.6.....6= and <?= by <.6....6.= and so on !he fact that 9 bits represent a character is the reason why a byte normally has 9 bits in it !hings can be differentA some characters sets have more or less characters in them than in #8C;;& so these computers would use a different si(e of byte (b) "hen data is input, it must be verified and validated. (i) "hen the details of a new customer are input to the system, the data must be verified. #escribe one way that the data can be verified. Answer: #ouble data entry where details are inputted twice and checked for any differences which would be reported for correction. (ii) $ne piece of data that is re%uired is to make of car. An e!istence check and a presence check will be carried out on this data. #escribe what is meant by:

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!istence &heck: identifies whether a certain value is present in a specified area. 'resence &heck: &hecks that important data are actually present and have not been missed out, e.g., customers may be re%uired to have their telephone numbers listed.

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