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Students of Computer Science GCSE learn how computers work, how to write programs, and how data is represented and handled by applications in this course. Python programming language will be used by students to design and write programs.

GCSE Computer Science Review
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25 Questions

1. Adware

2. Explain the reason for 'What difference us a user likely to experience when upgrading from a b series router to an n series router?'

3. Computer Virus

4. What are the ethical issues involved with the introduction of driverless cars? 

5. Unpatched/Outdated Software

6. firewall

7. Convert the following 6 byte number into hexadecimal.

10100110:11000001:10010000:00010010:10011110:00110110

8. What does DNS stand for?

9. What is meant by the digital divide?

10. What is meant by a full backup?

11. encryption

12. What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?

13. How does the use of technology impact on the environment?

14. Describe what is meant by memory management.

15. What is the purpose of the kernel in an operating system?

16. zero-day attack

17. You plan to use a peer network model for a business. Describe two reasons why you have chosen this network model.

18. What is the purpose of a device driver?

19. What is the purpose of a router?

20. Devices may have either a static or dynamic IP address. What is the difference between a static and dynamic IP address?

21. What are the purposes of the following components in the CPU?

ALU
Control Unit
Cache

22. What does the term POP stand for?

23. What is meant by system software?

24. Device Drivers

25. Using the LOR framework, write about the impact that bandwidth can have on the performance of a network.

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