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Topic 5.1 - Linked Lists - Exercises
1. A linked list is to be used as part of a railway train station system. As trains arrive at the station they are added to the tail of the list and as the leave the station they are removed from the...
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Topic 5.1 - Abstract data structures - Answers
1. Monthly temperature data is stored in a 2D array called MTEMPS as shown below. Each row is a month and each column is a week. The cell holds the average temperature for that month. a) What value is...
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Topic 7.1 - Control systems -Exercises
1. There are many microprocessor controlled devices in the modern home. Discuss the effects of these on people’s lifestyles. 2. A teacher has set up a weather station attached to a computer. (a) State...
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Topic 6.1 - Role of the operating system -Answers
1. Explain how a device driver is used by the operating system to control hardware. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs...
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Topic 6.1 - Role of the operating system - Exercises
1. Explain how a device driver is used by the operating system to control hardware. 2. The operating system uses scheduling to give threads, processes or data flows access to system resources. Compare...
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Topic 6.1 - System resources -Exercises
1. Identify the following devices. A [1] B [2] C [3] D [4] 2. Give two advantages and two disadvantages of using an SSD over a magnetic hard disk. 3. Using real examples consider the following devices...
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Topic 6.1 - System resources -Answers
1. Identify the following devices. A [1] B [2] C [3] D [4] A Network Interface Card /NIC B Random Access Memory RAM C Motherboard D CPU 2. Give two advantages and two disadvantages of using an SSD over...
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1.1 User Focus - Answers
1. Choose some examples of user documentation. In order to search you may want to use a search such as [sony ps4 manual filetype:pdf site:playstation.com] Using operators for file type and specific websites...
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Topic 5.1 - Applications - Answers
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Topic 5.1 - Trees - Answers
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