IB Computer Science Paper 1 2006
12 Questions
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- 2.Describe the role of buses in the machine instruction cycle. [4 marks]
- 3.Define data integrity and identify one factor that affects integrity when data is transmitted from one computer to another. [2 marks]
- 4.Describe an example of multi tasking on a personal computer. [2 marks]
- 5.Outline two advantages to a programmer of modularity at the design stage of a program, which is being coded for the first time. [4 marks]
- 6.Explain why data must be ordered if a binary search is used. [2 marks]
- 7.Outline the way in which a macro could be used when producing a document with a word processor. [2 marks]
- 8.Define the terms function argument and function parameter. [2 marks]
- 9.Define virtual memory and give an example of when it might be used. [2 marks]
- 10.Explain one reason why flash memory is increasingly being used as a portable storage medium. [3 marks]
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- 12.(b) Determine the output if any integer, n, is input. [1 mark]
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