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Topical Questions for: Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary

Education

Computer Science 0478

Paper 1 Series 1

Materials Required: Soft Clean eraser

Soft Pencil/Pen

Exam Board Level CIE IGCSE

(Sub) Topic Communication and Internet
Technologies
Total Marks Available 58
Total Time Allowed 1 Hour 45 Minutes

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Question 1

A school network is used to transmit and store data about students.

a. Different types and methods of transmission can be used to send data across the
network.
Three descriptions about data transmission are given.
Tick (3) one Method and tick (3) one Type for each description.

b. Parity bits are used to help detect errors in data transmission. A parity bit is added to
each binary value before transmission.
Three binary values are to be transmitted using even parity.

i. Complete the parity bit that would be added to each binary value for even
parity.

ii. A number of errors occurred during data transmission.

State why a parity check may not detect transmission errors.
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Question 2

Bytes of data transferred using a serial cable are checked for errors at the receiving end
using an even parity check.
Can these bytes of data pass the even parity check?
a. 01010101
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b. 11001000
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c. How can any errors be corrected?
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Question 3

Priya creates a website to sell her old comic books and superhero figures.
a. She uses HTML to create her website. The HTML she produces has both structure
and presentation.

Explain what is meant by HTML structure and presentation. Include an example of each.
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 b. Priya uses cookies in her website. Five statements are given about cookies.
Tick (✓) to show if the statement is True or False.

c. Priya stores her website on a webserver.

To transmit the website data to the webserver she uses parallel duplex data
transmission.
Describe how data is transmitted using parallel duplex data transmission.
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d. Priya has a URL for her website.
State what is meant by a URL.
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Question 4

Victoria is building a website for her cake design business.

a. Victoria uses HTML to create her website.
State what is meant by HTML.
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b. The HTML Victoria writes has both structure and presentation. Five examples are
given of structure and presentation.

Tick (✓) to show which example is Structure and which is Presentation.

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 c. Customers will use a web browser to access Victoria’s website. Victoria writes a
paragraph of text to explain how the website will be displayed on a customer’s
computer.

Use the list given to complete Victoria’s paragraph by inserting the correct six
missing terms.
Not all terms will be used.

• browser
• domain name
• firewall
• hexadecimalParity
• HTML
• https
• MAC address
• search engine
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• web server

The user enters the website .................................................................. into the

address bar.
The protocol that is used is .................................................................. . The URL
contains
the .................................................................. for the website. This is used to look up
the IP address of the company. A DNS server stores an index of IP addresses.
The browser sends a request to the .................................................................. as this
is where the files for the website are stored. The files are sent back to the
.................................................................. as
..................................................................files.
This is interpreted by the browser and the web page is displayed.
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 d. When customers access Victoria’s website they will be given the message:

This website uses cookies. An explanation of their purpose can be found in our
cookies policy.

1. Explain what is meant by cookies.

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ii. Explain why Victoria would use cookies as part of her website.
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Question 5

Sonia shares files with her friends. The method of data transmission she uses is half-duplex
serial transmission.

a. Describe how data is transmitted using half-duplex serial data transmission.

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 b. The system uses parity bits to check for errors during data transmission.
The outcome of four bytes after transmission is:

One of the bytes has been transmitted incorrectly.

Identify the byte that was transmitted incorrectly.
Byte ...........................................................
Explain how you identified the byte that was transmitted incorrectly.
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Question 6

HTML can be used to create the structure and the presentation of web pages.

a. Describe what is meant by HTML structure.

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 b. Gloria writes a paragraph as an answer to an examination question about accessing
a website.

Use the list given to complete Gloria’s answer by inserting the correct four missing
terms.
Not all terms will be used.

• browser
• cookies
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• hypertext transfer protocol (http)
• hypertext transfer protocol secure (https)
• Internet Protocol address (IP address)
• Media Access Control address (MAC address)
• web server

The user enters the URL of the website. The ...............................................................

uses the DNS server to look up the ............................................................... of the
website. The browser sends a request to the ...............................................................
to obtain the website files. The website files are sent as
............................................................... that is
interpreted by the browser.
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Question 7

Blair writes a paragraph about data transmission in her Computer Science examination.

Use the list given to complete Blair’s paragraph by inserting the correct five missing terms.
Not all terms will be used.
Terms can be used more than once.

• duplex
• half-duplex
• parallel
• serial
• simplex

....................................................................... data transmission is when data is transmitted a

single bit at a time. ....................................................................... data transmission is when
multiple bits of data are sent all at once. If a user wants to transmit data over a long
distance, with
the highest chance of accuracy, ....................................................................... data
transmission
should be used. If data needs to be transmitted in one direction only, for example from a
computer
to a printer, ....................................................................... data transmission should be used.
If a
user has a large amount of data to transmit and this needs to be done as quickly as possible
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