AS & A Level Computer Science (9618) — May–June 2024, Paper 32
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Start with Question 1 →Describe the effect of changing the allocation of bits used for the mantissa and for the exponent in a floating-point number with a fixed total number of bits.
Answer this question and get it marked →Outline why protocols are essential for communication between computers.
Answer this question and get it marked →Explain what is meant by the term non-composite data type and give an example of a non-composite data type. Example ............
Answer this question and get it marked →Sheila has a customer called Fred. Fred wants to send Sheila a confidential document as part of a transaction. Explain how Fred uses asymmetric encryption to send his document…
Answer this question and get it marked →Write this infix expression in Reverse Polish Notation (RPN): (7 – 2 + 8) / (9 – 5)
Answer this question and get it marked →The diagram shows a logic circuit with three inputs A, B and C and one output Z. - Input A passes through a NOT gate to give signal P. - Input B passes through a NOT gate to give…
Answer this question and get it marked →Outline what is meant by direct access as a method of file access.
Answer this question and get it marked →Complete the pseudocode to find an item in a 1D array Widgets of type STRING, using a linear search. DECLARE Widgets : ARRAY[1:50000] OF STRING DECLARE TopOfList : INTEGER DECLARE…
Answer this question and get it marked →Outline two benefits and two limitations of a virtual machine. Benefit 1 ............ Benefit 2 ............ Limitation 1 ............ Limitation 2 ............
Answer this question and get it marked →Jane is a client who would like to choose the activity surfing and she has already done sailing. Write additional clauses to represent this information. 25 ............ 26…
Answer this question and get it marked →Explain what is meant by Reinforcement Learning in relation to Artificial Intelligence.
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