CHAPTER TEST

Bina Bangsa School MYE Revision

Continual Term/Week: Duration:
Assessment 2/5 2 periods

Subject : Name :
Computer
Class :
Science Mark : _________ / 50
Level : Sec 3 Date :

1. Given the following binary number 11001011

a. Convert the binary to decimal.

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b. Add together the following three binary numbers, showing your working.

11011+110010+100101
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2. A sample of a sound is made at 44.1 kHz for 1 minute at a resolution of 16 bits. Calculate
the size (MB) of the resulting sound file if it uses a stereo recording. Show your working.
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ii. Explain, what is meant by sample resolution?

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iii. Explain, what is meant by sample rate?

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 b. State 3 advantages of lossless compression over lossy compression
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3. a. Select which statements refer to either serial or parallel transmission. Put a check mark on
the appropriate column that corresponds to the following statements
Statements Serial Parallel
suited for longer distances for data transmission
cost effective or less expensive to implement
possible errors might occur to the transmitted bits due out
of
synchronization
faster rate of data transmission

b. The Universal serial bus or commonly called as USB is a form of serial data transmission.
USB allows both half-duplex and full-duplex data transmission. Giving example/s, explain
what is meant by half duplex and full duplex transmission

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4. a. There are 8 bytes of data that are being transmitted to another computer. Even parity was used
for both the sender and receiver. A parity byte which is also sent at the end of this string of data was
denoted as the Byte9. In addition to that, Bit 1 was also considered as the parity bit.

The following table shows the received bytes:

Bit 1 Bit 2 Bit 3 Bit 4 Bit 5 Bit 6 Bit 7 Bit 8

Byte1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0
Byte2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Byte3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
Byte4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Byte5 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
Byte6 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Byte7 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Byte8 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
P. Byte 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

i. Identify using the bit number and byte number which bit has been incorrectly transmitted.

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ii. Explain how you located the incorrect bit value.
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iii. What would be the corrected byte value?

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iv. Name three other methods that could be used to identify errors following data transmission.
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b. One of the error detection method for data transmission is with the use of check digit.
Given the algorithm to check whether the check digit is valid or invalid, show your calculation
to verify if the check digit of the ISBN- 13 – 9781107518647 is valid or invalid. Identify whether
the check digit is valid or invalid. Show your working

Check Digit algorithm:

1 add all the odd numbered digits together
2 add all the even numbered digits together and multiply the result by 3
3 add the results from 1 and 2 together and divide by 10
4 take the remainder, if it is zero then use this value, otherwise subtract the remainder
from 10 to find the check digit.
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5. Joy mark bought an RC car for his son Marcus as gift for his forthcoming birthday. For the RC
toy car to operate a battery is needed for the controller in which he forgot to buy.

a. Explain the importance of the ROM and RAM in the RC car system.

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 b. Complete the following table by writing the appropriate
memory/ storage device(s) from the following list.

Blu-ray disk , DVD/CD, hard disk drive (HDD), random access memory (RAM)
removable HDD, read only memory (ROM), solid-state drive (SSD), USB memory
stick
Primary Storage Secondary Storage Offline Storage / Backup

c. There are ten statements in the table below. Indicate, using a tick (✓) whether each
statement is true or false.

STATEMENTS TRUE FALSE

1. DVDs uses blue laser, rather than a red laser carry out read and
write operations
2. CDs uses dual-layering technology in terms of storage capacity
3. Blu-ray disks automatically come with a secure encryption system that helps
to prevent piracy and copyright infringement
4. The most common use of DVD and Blu-ray is to store movies or games.
5. A thin layer of metal alloy or light-sensitive organic dye are used by CDs
and DVDs to store the data.

d. One of the functions of an operating system is on memory management and the most
common activity is the implementation of a virtual memory.

i. Explain what is meant by virtual memory.

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ii. State three advantages of using virtual memory.

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