Bahria Town School & College

Mid-Year Examination 2020

Class IX-O
* 8 8 9 3 9 3 6 0 2 6 *

COMPUTER SCIENCE 2210

Class 9-O
Paper 1 Theory
December 2019
1 hour 30 minutes
Candidate answer on question paper
No Additional Materials are required.
No calculators allowed.

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Any businesses described in this paper are entirely fictitious.

At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.

The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

The maximum number of marks is 75

This document consists of 11 printed pages and 1 blank page.

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1 Hexadecimal is used for MAC addresses.

Part of a MAC address is given:

97 – 5C – E1
Each pair of digits is stored as binary in an 8-bit register.

(a) Show what the binary register stores for each pair of the given digits.

97

5C

E1
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(b) Explain what is meant by a MAC address.

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(c) Give two other examples where hexadecimal can be used.

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Example 2 .................................................................................................................................

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The MAC address of a device is represented using hexadecimal.

A section of a MAC address is shown. Each pair of hexadecimal digits is stored using 8-bit binary.

(d) Complete the table to show the 8-bit binary equivalents for the section of MAC address. The
first number has already been converted.

6A FF 08 93
01101010
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(e) Explain why data is stored as binary in computers.

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2 Data can be transferred using half-duplex serial transmission.

(a) Describe serial transmission.

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(b) Give one application of serial data transmission.

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(c) Describe half-duplex data transmission.

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3 Parity checks and Automatic Repeat reQuests (ARQ) can be used to check for errors during data
transmission and storage.

(a) A system uses even parity. Write the appropriate parity bit for each byte.

Parity Bit
1 0 1 0 0 1 1
1 0 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 0 0 0 1
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(b) Explain how Automatic Repeat reQuests (ARQ) are used in data transmission and storage.

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(c) State one other method that could be used to check for transmission errors.

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4. (a) Convert the following hexadecimal number into 12-bit binary:

4AF

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(b) The 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro. A timer that counts down to the
opening of the Games is shown on a microprocessor-controlled display.

The number of hours, minutes and seconds until the Games open are held in three 8-bit
registers.

The present register values are:

0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 105 hours

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 minutes

0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 20 seconds

The timer will count down in seconds.

(i) Show the values in each 8-bit register 30 seconds after the time shown above:

hours

minutes

seconds
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(ii) Write the hexadecimal value of the minutes register from part (b)(i).

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5. (a) Three descriptions of data transmission are given

below. Tick (✓) the appropriate box in each table to show

the:

• type of transmission
• method of transmission

Description 1:
Tick Tick
Type Method
(✓) (✓)
Data is transmitted several bits at
a time down several wires in both simplex serial
directions simultaneously.
half-duplex parallel

full-duplex

Description 2:
Tick Tick
Type Method
(✓) (✓)
Data is transmitted in one direction
only, one bit at a time, down a simplex serial
single wire.
half-duplex parallel

full-duplex

Description 3:
Tick Tick
Type Method
(✓) (✓)
Data is transmitted one bit at a
time down a single wire; the data simplex serial
is transmitted in both directions
but not at the same time.
half-duplex parallel

full-duplex

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(b) Give two reasons why serial transmission, rather than parallel transmission, is used to
connect devices to a computer.

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7. Letters from Greek Alphbets are to be stored in computer. Each letter can be represented
on 8 by 8 grid. Each column has a value from 0 to 128.
The letter  is stored as
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8. (a) State what is meant by the term USB.

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(b) Describe two benefits of using USB connections between a computer and a device.

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(c) There are various methods used to detect errors that can occur during data transmission
and storage.

Describe each of the following error detection methods.

Parity check ......................................................................................................................................

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Checksum ........................................................................................................................................

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9. (a) The denary number 57 is to be stored in two different computer registers.

Convert 57 from denary to binary and show your working.

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(b) Show the binary number from part (a) as it would be stored in the following registers.

Register 1

Register 2
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(c) A binary number stored in a register can have many different uses, for example an address in
main memory.

Give two other uses for a binary number stored in a register.

Use 1 ........................................................................................................................................

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(d) A register in a computer contains binary digits.

0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0

The contents of the register represent a binary integer.

Convert the binary integer to hexadecimal.

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10.Computer A is communicating with computer B.

(a) Draw an arrow or arrows to show simplex, duplex and half-duplex data transmission. The
direction of the data transmission must be fully labelled.

Simplex data transmission

Computer A Computer B

Duplex data transmission

Computer A Computer B

Half-duplex data transmission

Computer A Computer B
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(b) State a use for the following data transmission methods. The use must be different for each
data transmission method.

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