Year 11 Mock Paper Revision
These should be completed over half term in your own time at home. Try and set aside a timed 1.5 hours per paper when you will not get disturbed for each other exams.
If you find you are really stuck just try your best, if you do need to look something up please do this in a different colour pen and only after you have attempted the whole paper.
Paper 1 - Computer Systems
| Topic | YouTube | Blue Book |
White Book |
| The purpose of the CPU | Link | ||
| The Von Neumann Architecture, including the MAR and other registers. | Link | ||
| RAM, ROM and Vurtual Memory | Link Link | ||
| Embedded Systems | Link | ||
| Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs) | Link | ||
| Wi-Fi Signals | |||
| Secondary storage devices, and cloud storage | Link | ||
| Open Source and Proprietary software | Link | ||
| Social Engineering, DoS Denial of service attacks. Security measures. | |||
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Functions of an operating system. |
Link | ||
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Utility software and Multitasking |
Link | ||
| Full and incremental backups and restoring data. | |||
| Artifical Intelligence - impact, including ethical implications | |||
| Topology, MAC addressing. | Link | ||
| POP, SMTP, HTTP and FTP protocols | |||
| TCP/IP stacks | Link |
Paper 2 - Computation Thinking, Algorithms and Programming
Answer only the following questions: Question 3, Question 4, Question 5, Question 7, Question 9
| Topic | YouTube | Blue Book | White Book |
| File sizes, including GB, MB, Bytes and Bits | |||
| Converting Hex to Denary | Link | ||
| Why computers use binary | |||
| Adding together binary, shifting binary. | Link | ||
| Writing Algorithms | |||
| High Level, Low Level, Compilers, Interpreters, IDEs. | Link | ||
| Explaining a flowchart | |||
| Variables and Constants | |||
| Boolean Statements |