This is one of many students note i have prepare for students writing CAPE. This Note/lecture/handout covers all you need to know about your syllabus and more along with some valuable work sheets. NB this is the work sheet
This is one of many students note i have prepare for students writing CAPE. This Note/lecture/handout covers all you need to know about your syllabus and more along with some valuable work sheets. NB this is the work sheet
This is one of many students note i have prepare for students writing CAPE. This Note/lecture/handout covers all you need to know about your syllabus and more along with some valuable work sheets. NB this is the work sheet
Homework 1 Answer all 7 uestions! Total of "# marks!
$1 %hen a &rogram makes a read reuest to the hard disk' the de(ice which reads data from the disk is mo(ed along the radius to the &articular concentric circle on which the data is stored! %hen the rele(ant &art of the concentric circle of the disk arri(es under the de(ice which reads the data' the data is read and stored in a s&ecial area of memory from which it could )e accessed! State the &ro&er technical term for *ACH of the F+U, underlined &hrases in the &assage a)o(e! -. marks/ $0 *1&lain the meaning of these terms -1# marks/ a/ 2yte! )/ Al&hanumeric characters! c/ Seuential access! d/ ,A3! e/ 2ar code! f/ *4+S! g/ ,esolution! h/ Sign and magnitude! i/ 3achine reada)le! 5/ Command dri(en! 1 $6 7ame the hardware com&onent that &erforms *ACH of the following functions8 a/ Stores &rograms and data that are currently )eing used )y the C4U! -1 mark/ )/ 4erforms the logical o&erations within the C4U! -1 mark/ c/ Stores &rograms and data that are not currently )eing used )y the C4U! -1 mark/ d/ 3odulates and demodulates signals! -1 mark/ e/ ,eads from disks! -1 mark/ f/ 9irects internal o&erations within the C4U! -1 mark/ $. a/ Con(ert the decimal num)er "" into its )inary eui(alent! -0 marks/ )/ Con(ert the )inary num)er 1#11#1# to its decimal eui(alent! -0 marks/ c/ Add the )inary num)ers 11#1# and 1##11! -0 marks/ d/ The ASCII code for the letter H has a decimal eui(alent of 70! %hat is the ASCII code for the letter 4! -0 marks/ $" State +7* difference )etween *ACH of the following8 a/ Command:line interface and gra&hical user interface! -0 marks/ )/ Im&act &rinters and non:im&act &rinter! -0 marks/ c/ Character &rinter and line &rinter! -0 marks/ d/ ;eneral &ur&ose software &ackage and s&ecialised software &ackage! -0 marks/ 2 $< 9raw a la)elled diagram showing the main com&onents of a com&uter system' indicating clearly the direction in which data flows! -< marks/ $7 a/ =ohn recei(ed com&uter hardware from a friend who li(es in the United States of America' )ut the software was missing! He' therefore' decided to &urchase the necessary software! In order for his system to run he realises that he would ha(e to &urchase software to manage the resources of the com&uter as well as software which could &ro(ide for his &articular &rocessing needs! For )oth ty&es of software he had a choice of two styles of interface> one of which was command dri(en or the other which &ro(ided screen listing with o&tions from which the user could select a&&ro&riate functions! Some software &ro(ides user interfaces which dis&lay small gra&hic images that can )e selected when the functions they re&resent is reuired! Since =ohn intended to use the com&uter in his family )usiness' he had a choice of acuiring software written es&ecially for his )usiness or general &ur&ose software! He noted' howe(er' that he would ha(e to do some modifications to allow it to meet his s&ecific need! State the &ro&er technical term for *ACH of the SIX underlined &hrases in the a)o(e &assage! -< marks/ )/ State T%+ functions of an o&erating system! -0 marks/ 3