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Computing revishion
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- 1Which data type would be used to store the value of pi?Real
- 2The area of the CPU which stores regularly used data is known as?The Cache
- 3Which data type would be used to store the amount of goals a football club has scored in a season?Interger
- 4What is an ethical issue?Something which raises questions about right or wrong in the views of society.
- 5How many fetch-decode-execute cycles would you expect a 900MHz processor to complete per second?900,000,000
- 6What is secondary storage?Non-volatile storage
- 7How much storage space does each character of ASCII need?7 Bits
- 8Which data type is used to store True/False values?Real
- 9What is the main disadvantage of using ASCII over Unicode?Less characters can be represented by the computer system.
- 10Which best describes a constant?Data which is stored and can be changed when the program is running.
- 11What does live >0 mean?condition controlled itteration
- 12Which storage device would you most likely use to storage large amounts of backup data?Magnetic
- 13Which are examples of operators?Multiplication (*), subtraction (-), addition (+) and division (/)
- 14What is the difference between ASCII and Extended ASCII?Each character in ASCII uses 7 bits to store each character, whereas Extended ASCII uses 8 bits.
- 15What documents, spreadsheets and presentations are examples of?Files
- 16Having a processor with higher cache, more cores or a higher clock speed will result in?programs will load faster
- 17What is meant by a character set?The different characters which can be represented by the computer system.
- 18What is a stake holder?A person with an interest or concern in something especial a business.
- 19What is the difference between RAM and ROM?ROM is used to start up the computer whereas RAM is the files currently being used.
- 20What is a cultural issue?It is the behaviour of society.
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